Yēlìmǐshū 6:19

19 Dì a , dāng tīng . wǒ bì shǐ zāihuò líndào zhè bǎixìng , jiù shì tāmen yìniàn suǒ jié de guǒzi . yīnwei tāmen bú tīng cóng wǒde yányǔ , zhìyú wǒde xùn huì ( huò zuò lǜfǎ ) , tāmen yĕ yànqì le .

Yēlìmǐshū 6:19 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
&c.] The people of the Jews; the evil of punishment, for the evil of sin committed by them; wherefore the earth, and the inhabitants of it, are called upon to bear witness to, the righteousness of such a procedure: even the fruit of their thoughts;
which they thought of, contrived, and devised; which shows that they did not do what they did inadvertently, but with thought and design. Kimchi interprets it of sinful deeds and actions, the fruit of thoughts; but his father, of thoughts themselves. The Talmudists, ^F25 comment upon it thus,

``a thought which brings forth fruit, the holy blessed God joins it to an action; but a thought in which there is no fruit, the holy blessed God does not join to action;''

that is, in punishment; very wrongly. For the sense is, that God would bring upon them the calamities and distresses their thoughts and the evil counsels of their minds deserved. The Targum renders it,

``the retribution or reward of their works.''

Because they have not hearkened unto my words;
spoken to them by the prophets: nor to my law, but rejected it;
neither hearkened to the law, nor to the prophets, but despised both. The Targum is,

``because they obeyed not the words of my servants, the prophets, and abhorred my law.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 40. 1.

Yēlìmǐshū 6:19 In-Context

17 Wǒ shèlì shǒu wàng de rén zhào guǎn nǐmen , shuō , yào tīng jiǎo shēng . tāmen què shuō , wǒmen bù tīng .

18 Liè guó a , yīncǐ nǐmen dāng tīng . huì zhòng a , yào zhīdào tāmen bì zāoyù de shì .

19 Dì a , dāng tīng . wǒ bì shǐ zāihuò líndào zhè bǎixìng , jiù shì tāmen yìniàn suǒ jié de guǒzi . yīnwei tāmen bú tīng cóng wǒde yányǔ , zhìyú wǒde xùn huì ( huò zuò lǜfǎ ) , tāmen yĕ yànqì le .

20 Cóng Shìbā chū de rǔxiāng , cóng yuǎnfāng chū de chāngpú ( huò zuò gān zhè ) fèng lái gĕi wǒ yǒu hé yì ne . nǐmen de Fánjì bù mén yuènà . nǐmen de píngān zhaì , wǒ yĕ bù xǐyuè .

21 Suǒyǐ Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , wǒ yào jiāng bàn jiǎo shí fàng zaì zhè bǎixìng qiánmian . fùqin hé érzi yào yītóng diē zaì qí shang . línshè yǔ péngyou yĕ dōu mièwáng .