1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jeremiah 22:1 | Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Juda, and there thou shalt speak this word. | Go. The contents of this chapter are of a more ancient date than those of the foregoing chapter; for the order of time is not always observed in the writings of the prophets. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- King Joakim, who succeeded Sellum, the year of the world 3394. (Usher) |
| Jeremiah 22:2 | And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants, and thy people, who enter in by these gates. | |
| Jeremiah 22:3 | Thus saith the Lord: *Execute judgement and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place. Jeremias 21:12. | |
| Jeremiah 22:4 | For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in, by the gates of this house, kings of the race of David sitting upon his throne, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants, and their people. | |
| Jeremiah 22:5 | But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation. | Myself, having none greater, Hebrews 6:13. Oaths evince the insincerity of men, who distrust each other; but when God condescends to use them, it shews men's incredulity. --- House, the temple, or rather the palace, where the king was sitting at the gate, ver. 2. (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 22:6 | For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda: Thou art to me Galaad, the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities not habitable. | Galaad, the head of Libanus. By Galaad, a rich and fruitful country, is here signified the royal palace of the kings of the house of David; by Libanus, a high mountain abounding in cedar-trees, the populous city of Jerusalem. (Challoner) (Worthington) (Theodoret) --- Both mountains are connected. (St. Jerome) (Strabo xvi.) --- Yet the proper Galaad was at some distance, and on the side of Ammon very barren. The palaces had arisen from a miserable state to resemble Libanus. They shall surely be destroyed. (Calmet) --- The advantageous situation of Jerusalem should not protect it, no more than it had done Galaad, 4 Kings 15:29. (Junius; Grotius) |
| Jeremiah 22:7 | And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into the fire. | Prepare. Literally, sanctify; (Challoner) as various religious ceremonies were used before the declaration of war, and to know what would be the success. (Calmet) --- The Chaldeans were destined to execute God's decrees. (St. Jerome) --- Cedars; fine buildings, (ver. 14.; Calmet) and chiefs. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 22:8 | And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every man to his neighbour: *Why hath the Lord done so to this great city? Deuteronomy 29:24.; 3 Kings 9:8. | |
| Jeremiah 22:9 | And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them. | |
| Jeremiah 22:10 | Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan him with your tears: lament him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. | Dead. He means the good king Josias, who by death was taken away, so as not to see the miseries of his country. --- Away. Sellum, alias Joachaz, who was carried captive into Egypt, (Challoner) ver. 12., and 4 Kings 23:33. (Calmet) --- He was the fourth son of Josias, (1 Paralipomenon 3:15.) and had probably the title of king after the death of Sedecias. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 22:11 | For thus saith the Lord to Sellum, the son of Josias, the king of Juda, who reigned instead of his father, who went forth out of this place: He shall return hither no more: | |
| Jeremiah 22:12 | But in the place, to which I have removed him, there shall he die, and he shall not see this land any more. | |
| Jeremiah 22:13 | Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgement: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages. | Friend. Joakim forced his subjects to work for him for nothing. |
| Jeremiah 22:14 | Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion. | Wide. Hebrew, "measured;" large, and well-proportioned. --- Vermilion, (cynopide.) This colour was invented in the town of Pontus, and was used for statues, etc. (Pliny, [Natural History?] 33:6., and 35:6.) (Wisdom 13:14.) (Calmet) --- Hebrew shashar (Haydock) may mean indigo. (Junius) (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 22:15 | Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him? | Cedar; Josias. (Calmet) --- Shall thy magnificent palaces secure thy empire? (Haydock) --- Him. Obey the Lord, in like manner, that thou mayst prosper. |
| Jeremiah 22:16 | He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not, therefore, because he knew me, saith the Lord? | |
| Jeremiah 22:17 | But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works. | |
| Jeremiah 22:18 | Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim, the son of Josias, king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas! my brother, and alas! sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas! my lord, or, alas! the noble one. | Sister. They shall not condole with his consort. |
| Jeremiah 22:19 | He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth *without the gates of Jerusalem. Jeremias 36:30. | Jerusalem. Jeremias 36:30. He died indeed with or like his fathers, 4 Kings 24:6. But it is not said that he was buried. (St. Jerome) --- The Chaldeans designed to send him to Babylon, (2 Paralipomenon 36:6.) but slew him on the road, (Usher, the year of the world 3405) or treated his corpse ignominiously after his arrival. (Grotius) |
| Jeremiah 22:20 | Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan, and cry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are destroyed. | Go; Jerusalem. The verbs are feminine. --- Lovers; citizens, or Egyptians, etc., Jeremias 27:2. |
| Jeremiah 22:21 | I spoke to thee in thy properity: and thou saidst: I will not hear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not heard my voice. | |
| Jeremiah 22:22 | The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: and then shalt thou be confounded, and ashamed of all thy wickedness. | Pastors, or princes, whose expectations of aid will be frustrated, Osee 12:1. Chaldean, "Thy leaders shall be scattered to all the winds." |
| Jeremiah 22:23 | Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars, how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a woman in labour? | |
| Jeremiah 22:24 | As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias, the son of Joakim, the king of Juda, were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence. | Jechonias: Joachin, (4 Kings 24:6.; Worthington) or Chenias, who did not take warning by his predecessor's misfortune. --- Ring, or seal, if he were most dear to me, the prime minister of the greatest monarch, Aggeus 2:24. (Calmet) --- Alexander the Great gave his ring to Perdiccas, designating him his successor, or regent. (Curt. x.) |
| Jeremiah 22:25 | And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. | |
| Jeremiah 22:26 | And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die: | Mother; Nohesta, (4 Kings 24:8.) who perverted, (Calmet) or did not correct him in his youth. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 22:27 | And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither. | Mind; ardently desiring and expecting to be liberated. (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 22:28 | Is this man, Jechonias, an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? | Jechonias. Protestants, "Koniah, a despised broken idol? is he," etc. Alexandrian Septuagint, "Jechonias has been dishonoured as a vessel, or which there is no need, for he hath been snatched and cast," etc. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 22:29 | O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. | |
| Jeremiah 22:30 | Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda. | Write this man barren. That is childless: not that he had no children, but that his children should never sit on the throne of Juda, (Challoner) ver. 28., Matthew 1:12., and Ezechiel 17:24. Zorobabel was of his seed, yet he never obtained the title or sovereign power of a king. The Machabees were of a different family. (St. Jerome) --- Joachin, or Jechonias, was restored indeed to some favour, (4 Kings 25:27.) but not to the kingdom, no more than any of his posterity, till Christ. (Worthington) |