the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Jeremiah 17:17
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Don’t become a terror to me.You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
Be not a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in a day of disaster.
Don't be a terror to me. I run to you for safety in times of trouble.
Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge and my hope in the day of disaster.
Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
Be not terrible vnto mee: thou art mine hope in the day of aduersitie.
Do not be a terror to me;You are my refuge in the day of calamity.
Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
I trust you for protection in times of trouble, so don't frighten me.
So do not be my ruin, you, my refuge on the day of disaster.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.
Please don't make me afraid of you. I depend on you in times of trouble.
Be not a terror to me; but abide with me in the day of trouble.
Do not be a terror to me; you are my place of safety when trouble comes.
You must not become to me a terror, you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of evil.
Be not now terrible vnto me (o LORDE) for thou art he, in whom I hope, when I am in parell.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.
Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.
Be not a terrour vnto me, thou art my hope in the day of euill.
Be not thou terrible vnto me O Lord: for thou art he in whom I hope when I am in perill.
Be not to me a stranger, but spare me in the evil day.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.
Be thou not to drede to me; thou art myn hope in the dai of turment.
Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
Be not a terror to me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.
Do not cause me dismay! You are my source of safety in times of trouble.
Do not be a terror to me; You are my hope in the day of doom.
Lord , don't terrorize me! You alone are my hope in the day of disaster.
Do not make me afraid of You. You are my safe place in the day of trouble.
Do not become a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster;
Do not thou become to me a terror, - My refuge, art thou, in the day of calamity.
Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.
Be not a terror to me; thou art my refuge in the day of evil.
Be not Thou to me for a terror, My hope [art] Thou in a day of evil.
Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a terror: Job 31:23, Psalms 77:2-9, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:16
thou: Jeremiah 17:7, Jeremiah 17:13, Jeremiah 16:19, Psalms 41:1, Psalms 59:16, Nahum 1:7, Ephesians 6:13
Reciprocal: Psalms 62:5 - my Psalms 71:5 - For thou Psalms 77:3 - I remembered Psalms 115:9 - trust Amos 5:10 - abhor
Cross-References
And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying:
And God said: 'Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'
And Sarah said: 'God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me.'
And there came forth fire from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat; and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
And they fell upon their faces, and said: 'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?'
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="num.16.1" class="versetxt"> Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; and they rose up in face of Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty men; they were princes of the congregation, the elect men of the assembly, men of renown; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them: 'Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?' And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face. And he spoke unto Korah and unto all his company, saying: 'In the morning the LORD will show who are His, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto Him; even him whom He may choose will He cause to come near unto Him. This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company; and put fire therein, and put incense upon them before the LORD to-morrow; and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy; ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.' And Moses said unto Korah: 'Hear now, ye sons of Levi: is it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them; and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also? Therefore thou and all thy company that are gathered together against the LORD--; and as to Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?' And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said: 'We will not come up; is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us? Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards; wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.' And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD: 'Respect not Thou their offering; I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.' And Moses said unto Korah: 'Be thou and all thy congregation before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow; and take ye every man his fire-pan, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his fire-pan, two hundred and fifty fire-pans; thou also, and Aaron, each his fire-pan.' And they took every man his fire-pan, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. And Korah assembled all the congregation against them unto the door of the tent of meeting; and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation. And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.' And they fell upon their faces, and said: 'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?' And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Speak unto the congregation, saying: Get you up from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.' And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be swept away in all their sins.' So they got them up from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. And Moses said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, and be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent Me. But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.' And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground did cleave asunder that was under them. And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.' And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Be not a terror unto me,.... By deserting him, and leaving him in the hands of his enemies; or by denying him supports under their reproaches and persecution; or by withdrawing his gracious presence from him, than which nothing is more terrible to a good man; or by withholding the comfortable influences of his Spirit; or by suffering terrors to be injected into him from any quarter; and more is meant than is expressed; namely, that God would be a comforter of him, and bear him up under all his troubles:
thou [art] my hope in the day of evil: the author and object of his hope; the ground and foundation of it, from whom he hoped for deliverance, when it was a time of distress with him, from outward as well as from inward enemies; he was his hope in a time of outward calamity, and in the hour of death and day of judgment.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judahâs ruin.
Jeremiah 17:6
Like the heath - Or, âlike a destitute manâ Psalms 102:17. The verbs âhe shall seeâ (or fear) and âshall inhabitâ plainly show that a man is here meant and not a plant.
Jeremiah 17:8
The river - Or, âwater-courseâ Isaiah 30:25, made for purposes of irrigation.
Shall not see - Or, âshall not fear Jeremiah 17:6.â Godâs people feel trouble as much as other people, but they do not fear it because they know
(1) that it is for their good, and
(2) that God will give them strength to bear it.
Jeremiah 17:9
The train of thought is apparently this: If the man is so blessed Jeremiah 17:7-8 who trusts in Yahweh, what is the reason why men so generally âmake flesh their armâ? And the answer is: Because manâs heart is incapable of seeing things in a straightforward manner, but is full of shrewd guile, and ever seeking to overreach others.
Desperately wicked - Rather, mortally sick.
Jeremiah 17:10
The answer to the question, âwho can know it?â To himself a manâs heart is an inscrutable mystery: God alone can fathom it.
Ways - Rather, way, his course of life. The âandâ must be omitted, for the last clause explains what is meant âby manâs way,â when he comes before God for judgment. It is âthe fruit,â the final result âof his doings, i. e., his real character as formed by the acts and habits of his life.
Jeremiah 17:11
Rather, âAs the partridge hath gathered eggs which it laid not, so ...â The general sense is: the covetous man is as sure to reap finally disappointment only as is the partridge which piles up eggs not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them.
A fool - A Nabal. See 1 Samuel 25:25.
Jeremiah 17:12, Jeremiah 17:13
Or, âThou throne ... thou place ... thou hope ... Yahweh! All that forsake Thee etc.â The prophet concludes his prediction with the expression of his own trust in Yahweh, and confidence that the divine justice will finally be vindicated by the punishment of the wicked. The âthrone of gloryâ is equivalent to Him who is enthroned in glory.
Jeremiah 17:13
Shall be written in the earth - i. e., their names shall quickly disappear, unlike those graven in the rock forever Job 19:24. A board covered with sand is used in the East to this day in schools for giving lessons in writing: but writing inscribed on such materials is intended to be immediately obliterated. Equally fleeting is the existence of those who forsake God. âAll men are written somewhere, the saints in heaven, but sinners upon earthâ (Origen).
Jeremiah 17:15
This taunt shows that this prophecy was written before any very signal fulfillment of Jeremiahâs words had taken place, and prior therefore to the capture of Jerusalem at the close of Jehoiakimâs life. âNowâ means âI pray,â and is ironical.
Jeremiah 17:16
I have not hastened from - i. e., I have not sought to escape from.
A pastor to follow thee - Rather, âa shepherd after Thee.â âShepherdâ means âruler, magistrateâ (Jeremiah 2:8 note), and belongs to the prophet not as a teacher, but as one invested with authority by God to guide and direct the political course of the nation. So Yahweh guides His people Psalms 23:1-2, and the prophet does so âafter Him,â following obediently His instructions.
The woeful day - literally, âthe day of mortal sickness:â the day on which Jerusalem was to be destroyed, and the temple burned.
Right - Omit the word. What Jeremiah asserts is that he spake as in Godâs presence. They were no words of his own, but had the authority of Him before whom he stood. Compare Jeremiah 15:19.
Jeremiah 17:17
A terror - Rather, âa cause of dismay,â or consternation Jeremiah 1:17. By not fulfilling Jeremiahâs prediction God Himself seemed to put him to shame.
Jeremiah 17:18
Confounded - Put to shame.
Destroy them ... - Rather, break them with a double breaking: a twofold punishment, the first their general share in the miseries attendant upon their countryâs fall; the second, a special punishment for their sin in persecuting and mocking Godâs prophet.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 17:17. Be not a terror unto me — Do not command me to predict miseries, and abandon me to them and to my enemies.
