Jeremía 18:23

Heilögum Biblíunni

23 En þú, Drottinn, þekkir öll fjörráð þeirra gegn mér. Fyrirgef eigi misgjörð þeirra og afmá ekki synd þeirra fyrir augliti þínu. Lát þá steypast fyrir þér, framkvæm það á þeim, þegar reiði þín brýst út.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou: Jeremiah 18:18, Jeremiah 11:18-20, Jeremiah 15:15, Psalms 37:32, Psalms 37:33

to slay me: Heb. for death

forgive: Nehemiah 4:4, Nehemiah 4:5, Psalms 35:4, Psalms 59:5, Psalms 69:22-28, Psalms 109:14, Psalms 109:15, Isaiah 2:9

in the: Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 11:23, Isaiah 10:3, Luke 21:22, Romans 2:5

Reciprocal: Psalms 51:1 - blot Psalms 64:2 - secret Psalms 119:126 - to work Isaiah 44:22 - blotted Lamentations 1:22 - all their Daniel 6:4 - sought

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay [me],.... However deep they had laid them; and however unknown they were to him; or however private and secret they might be thought to be by them; God is an omniscient God, and knows and sees all things; the thoughts of men's hearts, and all their secret designs in the dark against his ministers, people, and interest:

forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; they had sinned the unpardonable sin; or, however, a sin unto death; for which prayer for the forgiveness of it was not to be made, 1 John 5:16; this the prophet knew: what he here imprecates, and both before and after, must be considered, not as flowing from a private spirit, or from a spirit of malice and revenge; but what he delivered out under a spirit of prophecy, as foretelling what would be the sad estate and condition of these persons; for, otherwise, the temper and disposition of the prophet were the reverse; and he was inclined to sue for mercy for these people, as he often did; wherefore this is not to be drawn into a precedent and example for any to follow:

but let them be overthrown before thee; by the sword, famine, and pestilence: or, "let them be made to stumble before thee" i; and fall into perdition; they having made others to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths of truth and goodness; so that it was but a righteous thing that they should be punished after this manner; see Jeremiah 18:15;

deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger; the set time for his wrath to come upon them to the uttermost; then do unto them according to all the imprecations now made; which the prophet foresaw, and believed he would do; and therefore thus spake.

i והיו מכשלים לפניך "propellantur in offendiculum coram te", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "offensi ruant coram te", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet, Lord - Better, But, Lord. They conceal their plots, but God knows, and therefore must punish.

Neither blot out ... - Or, “blot not out their sin from before Thy face that they may be made to stumble before Thee.”

Thus - Omit this word. Since there is an acceptable time and a day of salvation, so there is a time of anger, and Jeremiah’s prayer is that God would deal with his enemies at such a time, and when therefore no mercy would be shown. On imprecations such as these, see Psalms 109:0 introductory note. Though they did not flow from personal vengeance, but from a pure zeal for God’s honor, yet they belong to the legal spirit of the Jewish covenant. We must not, because we have been shown a “more excellent way,” condemn too harshly that sterner spirit of justice which animated so many of the saints of the earlier dispensation.