Jeremiah 10:18

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Gather your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.'" ¹⁸ For thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress to them, so that they may feel it." ¹⁹ Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound is incurable. But I said, "Surely this is my sickness, and I must bear it." ²⁰ My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out from me, and they are not. There is no one who pitches my tent again, or one who puts up my tent curtains. ²¹ For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. Therefore they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered. ²² Listen, news: Look, it is coming, a great roar from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. ²³ I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way, nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step. ²⁴ Chastise me, O Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me. ²⁵ Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.

Bible Verse Review
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I will: Jeremiah 15:1, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 16:13, Deuteronomy 28:63, Deuteronomy 28:64, 1 Samuel 25:29

that: Jeremiah 23:20, Ezekiel 6:10, Zechariah 1:6

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 6:1 - gather Jeremiah 39:9 - carried Micah 2:10 - it shall

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 10:17
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor you will make a boundary to reach Hamath; the limits of the territory will be at Zedad.

Joshua 18:22
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

2 Samuel 8:9
When Toi, the king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer,

2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria brought from Babylonia, from Cush, from Arva, from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and he settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites, so they took possession of Samaria and lived in her cities.

2 Kings 17:30
The men of Babylonia made Succoth Benoth; the men of Cush made Nergal; the men of Hamath made Ashima.

2 Chronicles 13:4
Then Abijah stood up on top of Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Ezekiel 27:8
The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvan were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were from your own people, and they were your seamen.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord,.... This is a reason enforcing the exhortation in the preceding verse, and shows that the same people that are spoken of here are addressed there.

Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once; meaning the inhabitants of the land of Judea; or otherwise the prophet would never have expressed such a concern for them as he does in the following verse. Their captivity is signified by the slinging of a stone out of a sling, and shows how sudden, swift, and certain, it would be: and that it would as easily and swiftly be done, and with equal force and rapidity, as a stone is slung out of a sling; and that it would be done by the Lord himself, whoever were the instruments:

and will distress them; or "straiten" z them, on every side; it seems to intend the siege; or bring them into great straits and difficulties, through the pestilence, famine, sword, and captivity:

that they may find it; so as he had spoken by his prophets, it coming to pass exactly as they had foretold. The Targum is,

"that they may receive the punishment of their sins;''

and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "that thy stroke may be found"; but the Syriac version is very different from either, "that they may seek me and find"; which is an end that is sometimes answered by afflictive dispensations.

z והצרתי להם "oblidere faciana eos", some in Vatablus; "et angustabo, [vel] obsidebo eos", Schmidt; "faciam ut obsideant eos", Calvin; "arctum ipsis facium", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sling out - A similar metaphor for violent ejection occurs in Isaiah 22:18 (see the note).

At this once - Or, “at this time.” Previous invasions had ended either in deliverance, or at most in temporary misfortune. God’s long-suffering is exhausted, and this time Judaea must cease to be an independent nation.

That they may find it so - Omit “so,” and explain either

(1) “I will distress them” with the rigors of a siege “that they may feel it, i. e., the distress; or,

(2) “that they may find” Me, God, that which alone is worth finding.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:18. I will sling out the inhabitants of the land — I will project you with violence from your country. I will send you all into captivity. This discourse, from Jeremiah 10:17, is supposed to have been delivered in the eleventh year of Jehoiakim.