Yēlìmǐshū 10:18

18 Yīnwei Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , zhè shíhou , wǒ bìjiāng cǐ dì de jūmín , hǎoxiàng yòng jī xián shuǎi chū qù , yòu Bìjiā haì zaì tāmen shēnshang , shǐ tāmen juéwù .

Yēlìmǐshū 10:18 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 10:18

For thus saith the Lord
This is a reason enforcing the exhortation in the preceding verse, and shows that the same people that are spoken of here are addressed there. Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once;
meaning the inhabitants of the land of Judea; or otherwise the prophet would never have expressed such a concern for them as he does in the following verse. Their captivity is signified by the slinging of a stone out of a sling, and shows how sudden, swift, and certain, it would be: and that it would as easily and swiftly be done, and with equal force and rapidity, as a stone is slung out of a sling; and that it would be done by the Lord himself, whoever were the instruments: and will distress them;
or "straiten" ^F26 them, on every side; it seems to intend the siege; or bring them into great straits and difficulties, through the pestilence, famine, sword, and captivity: that they may find it;
so as he had spoken by his prophets, it coming to pass exactly as they had foretold. The Targum is,

``that they may receive the punishment of their sins;''

and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "that thy stroke may be found"; but the Syriac version is very different from either, "that they may seek me and find"; which is an end that is sometimes answered by afflictive dispensations.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mhl ytruhw) "oblidere faciana eos", some in Vatablus; "et angustabo, [vel] obsidebo eos", Schmidt; "faciam ut obsideant eos", Calvin; "arctum ipsis facium", Cocceius.

Yēlìmǐshū 10:18 In-Context

16 Yǎgè de fēn bú xiàng zhèxie , yīn tā shì zào zuò wàn yǒude zhǔ . Yǐsèliè yĕ shì tā chǎnyè de zhīpaì , wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá shì tāde míng .

17 Shòu wéi kùn de rén nǎ , dāng shōushi nǐde cáiwù , cóng guó zhōng daì chū qù .

18 Yīnwei Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , zhè shíhou , wǒ bìjiāng cǐ dì de jūmín , hǎoxiàng yòng jī xián shuǎi chū qù , yòu Bìjiā haì zaì tāmen shēnshang , shǐ tāmen juéwù .

19 Mín shuō , huò zāi . wǒ shòu sún shāng . wǒde shāng hén jíqí zhòng dà . wǒ què shuō , zhè zhēn shì wǒde tòngkǔ , bìxū rĕnshòu .

20 Wǒde zhàngpéng huǐhuaì . wǒde shéng suǒ zhé duàn . wǒde érnǚ lí wǒ chū qù , méiyǒu le . wú rén zaì zhī dā wǒde zhàngpéng , guà qǐ wǒde mànzǐ .