Jeremías 4:10

10 Yo dije: «¡Ah, SEÑOR mi Dios,cómo has engañado a este pueblo y a Jerusalén!Dijiste: “Tendrán paz”,pero tienen la espada en el cuello».

Jeremías 4:10 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 4:10

Then said I, ah, Lord God!
&c.] Expressing great sorrow and concern: this "ah" is by way of lamentation. The Targum interprets it as a petition,

``and I said, receive my prayer, O Lord God:''

surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem:
what the false prophets did, that God is said to do, because he suffered them to deceive the people; see ( 1 Kings 22:20-23 ) . The Targum ascribes the deception to the false prophets, and not to God,

``surely behold the false prophets deceive this people, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem;''

or this may be ironically said, because the false prophets pretended to speak in the name of the Lord; wherefore Jeremiah says, "surely thou hast greatly deceived" "saying, ye shall have peace"; as the false prophets did, ( Jeremiah 6:14 ) : whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul;
takes away the life, many are slain by it; so the Targum,

``and now behold the sword killeth among the people;''

great slaughter is made by it. L'Empereur ^F23 observes that the word here used signifies, in the Arabic language, to educate or bring up; and then the sense is,

``ah, Lord, thou hast brought up this people with great tenderness, and promised them all manner of happiness; but now thou thunderest out threatenings of calamities of all sorts, and death itself; and assigned a place for the sword to enter into their very souls;''

so the Arabic word <arabic> used in the version of ( Acts 22:2 ) ( 1 Timothy 4:6 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Not. ad Mosis Kimchi, (odoiporia) , p. 186.

Jeremías 4:10 In-Context

8 Por esto, vístanse de luto,laméntense y giman,porque la ardiente ira del SEÑORno se ha apartado de nosotros.

9 »En aquel día desfalleceráel corazón del rey y de los jefes;los sacerdotes se llenarán de pánicoy los profetas quedarán atónitos»,afirma el SEÑOR.

10 Yo dije: «¡Ah, SEÑOR mi Dios,cómo has engañado a este pueblo y a Jerusalén!Dijiste: “Tendrán paz”,pero tienen la espada en el cuello».

11 En aquel tiempo se les diráa este pueblo y a Jerusalén:«Desde las estériles lomas del desiertosopla un viento abrasadoren dirección a la capital de mi pueblo.No es el viento que sirve para aventarni para limpiar el trigo;

12 el viento que haré venires demasiado fuerte para eso,porque yo mismodictaré sentencia contra ellos».