1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jeremiah 21:1 | The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king Sedecias sent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of Maasias, the priest, saying: | Sent, after Nabuchodonosor had returned from Egypt. (The year of the world 3415.) This consultation should be placed after Jeremias 37. (Calmet) --- Phassur, specified above, and Jeremias 38:1., (Calmet) or a different person. (St. Jerome) (Piscator) --- Sophonias, the second priest, (chap. 37:3., and 52:24.) of the 24th class, (1 Paralipomenon 24:18.) who was slain at Reblatha. (Calmet) --- Jeremias threatens the great ones to Jeremias 29. and is persecuted. He spoke this when Nabuchodonosor invaded the country. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 21:2 | Enquire of the Lord for us, for Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, maketh war against us: if so be, the Lord will deal with us according to all his wonderful works, that he may depart from us. | |
| Jeremiah 21:3 | And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you say to Sedecias: | |
| Jeremiah 21:4 | Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans, that besiege you round about the walls: and I will gather them together in the midst of this city. | City. The people shall turn their arms against each other; or rather the Chaldeans shall use their weapons to destroy them. (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 21:5 | And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, and with a strong arm, and in fury, and in indignation, and in great wrath. | |
| Jeremiah 21:6 | And I will strike the inhabitants of this city: men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence. | Pestilence. Septuagint, "death;" the sword, and various diseases. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 21:7 | And, after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias, the king of Juda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to pity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy on them. | To them. This was verified, Jeremias 52., and 4 Kings xxiv. |
| Jeremiah 21:8 | And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. | Death; the former if they submit, the latter if they fight, ver. 9. (Calmet) --- God's grace is ever ready, that sinners may be converted. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 21:9 | *He that shall abide in this city, shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that shall go out, and flee over to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, shall live, and his life shall be to him as a spoil. Jeremias 38:2. | Spoil. He shall be happy to escape naked, Jeremias 38:3. (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 21:10 | For I have set my face against this city, for evil, and not for good, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. | |
| Jeremiah 21:11 | And to the house of the king of Juda: Hear ye the word of the Lord, | |
| Jeremiah 21:12 | O house of David, thus saith the Lord: *Judge ye judgement in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways. Jeremias 22:3. | |
| Jeremiah 21:13 | Behold, I come to thee that dwelleth in a valley, upon a rock, above a plain, saith the Lord: and you say: Who shall strike us? and who shall enter into our houses? | Valley. He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the strength of her situation, upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley. (Challoner) --- Literally, "valley, solid and in a plain." (Haydock) --- Isaias (xxii. 1.) styles it ironically, "the valley of vision." (Calmet) --- Jerusalem was situated on many rocks. (Josephus, Jewish Wars 6:6.) |
| Jeremiah 21:14 | But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forests thereof: and it shall devour all things round about it. | Doings. Hebrew, "studies." So "Your studious pursuits" occurs, ver. 12, in many Hebrew manuscripts, though the printed copy have, "their;" and "spoiled" for apprised. (Kennicott) --- Forest, the temple, which is called Libanus, (Zacharias 11:21.) and the houses built of cedar-wood, (4 Kings 25:9.; Calmet) particularly the royal palace of the forest, 3 Kings vii. (Haydock) |