Jeremiæ 1:7

Nova Vulgata

ZAIN. Recordata est Ierusalem dierum afflictionis suae et peregrinationis, omnium desiderabilium suorum, quae habuerat a diebus antiquis, cum caderet populus eius in manu hostili, et non esset auxiliator; viderunt eam hostes et deriserunt interitum eius.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et dixit Dominus ad me : Noli dicere : Puer sum ; quoniam ad omnia qu� mittam te ibis, et universa qu�cumque mandavero tibi loqueris.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Recordata est Jerusalem dierum afflictionis su�,
et pr�varicationis,
omnium desiderabilium suorum,
qu� habuerat a diebus antiquis,
cum caderet populus ejus in manu hostili,
et non esset auxiliator:
viderunt eam hostes,
et deriserunt sabbata ejus.

Bible Verse Review
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remembered: Job 29:2-25, Job 30:1, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 77:3, Psalms 77:5-9, Hosea 2:7, Luke 15:17, Luke 16:25

all her: Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:34-37, Deuteronomy 8:7-9, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Isaiah 5:1-4

pleasant: or, desirable, Lamentations 1:10

the adversaries: Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 137:3, Psalms 137:4, Micah 4:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:9 - mocking 1 Kings 20:6 - pleasant Nehemiah 1:3 - in great Isaiah 64:11 - all our Jeremiah 20:5 - I will deliver Daniel 9:8 - because Micah 7:14 - as Zephaniah 3:18 - sorrowful

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries,.... When carried captive, and in exile in a foreign land; when surrounded with distresses and calamities of various kinds; which are a means sometimes of rubbing up and refreshing the memories of persons with those good things they take little notice of in the times of prosperity; the worth of such things being best known and prized by the want of them: even

all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old; her civil and religious liberties; the word, worship, and ordinances of God; the temple, altars, and courts of the Lord; the ark of the testimony, the symbol of the divine Presence; and the revelation of the will of God by the prophets; their peace, prosperity, and enjoyment of all good things: these were remembered

when her people fell into the hand of the enemy; the Chaldeans. The Targum is,

"into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the wicked, and he oppressed them:''

and none did help her; not the Egyptians, her allies and confederates, in whom she trusted:

her adversaries saw her, [and] did mock at her sabbaths; as the Heathens used to do; calling the Jews Sabbatarians o; by way of derision; representing them as an idle lazy people, who observed a seventh day merely out of sloth, and so lost a seventh part of time p; or they mocked at them for keeping them in vain; since, notwithstanding their religious observance of them, they were suffered to be carried captive out of their land; or, as Jarchi thinks, the Chaldeans mocked at them for keeping their sabbaths strictly, now they were in other lands, when they neglected them in their own country; or they jeered them with their weekly and yearly sabbaths; suggesting to them that now they had leisure enough to observe them; and that their land ceased from tillage with a witness now: some think, that because of the observance of a sabbath, they were obliged to by their law, therefore the Heathens made them work the harder, and imposed greater tasks upon them on that day than on others, like the Egyptians of old; though the words may be rendered, "they mocked at her cessations" q; from joy and pleasure, peace and comfort, and the enjoyment of all good things; so the Targum,

"the enemies saw her when she went into captivity; and they mocked at the good things which ceased out of the midst of her.''

o "Quod jejunia sabbatariorum". Martial. l. 4. Epigr. 4. p "----Cui septima quaeque fuit lux Ignava, et partem vitae non attigit ullam". Juvenal. Satyr. 5. q שחקו על משבתיה "irrident cessationes ejus", Junius Tremellius "rident propter cesstiones", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction,

And of her homelessness,

All her pleasant things which have been from the days of old:

Now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary,

And she hath no helper;

Her adversaries have seen her,

They have mocked at her sabbath-keepings.

The word rendered “homelessless” means wanderings, and describes the state of the Jews, cast forth from their homes and about to be dragged into exile.

Sabbaths - Or, sabbath-keepings, and the cessation from labor every seventh day struck foreigners as something strange, and provoked their ridicule.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. Did mock at her Sabbaths. — משבתה mishbatteha. Some contend that Sabbaths are not intended here. The Septuagint has κατοικεσια αυτης, "her habitation;" the Chaldee, על טובהא al tubaha, "her good things;" the Syriac, [Syriac] al toboroh, "her breach." The Vulgate and Arabic agree with the Hebrew. Some of my oldest MSS. have the word in the plural number, משבתיה mishbatteyha, "her Sabbaths." A multitude of Kennicott's MSS. have the same reading. The Jews were despised by the heathen for keeping the Sabbath. Juvenal mocks them on that account: -

_____cui septima quaeque fuit lux

Ignava et partem vitae non attigit ullam.

Sat. v.

"To whom every seventh day was a blank, and formed not any part of their life."

St. Augustine represents Seneca as doing the same: - Inutiliter id eos facere affirmans, quod septimani ferme partem aetatis suae perdent vacando, et multa in tempore urgentia non agendo laedantur. "That they lost the seventh part of their life in keeping their Sabbaths; and injured themselves by abstaining from the performance of many necessary things in such times." He did not consider that the Roman calendar and customs gave them many more idle days than God had prescribed in Sabbaths to the Jews. The Sabbath is a most wise and beneficent ordinance.