27:2). Biblical Commentary Jeremiah 1:4-10, 17-19 EXEGESIS: JEREMIAH 1:1-3. His complaint is that the people mock him when they do not see his prophecies come true (14-15). 14:19-22 ‒ the people pray as they did in Jer. The appointed means. Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance - Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. 7 See my comments on 1:6. Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise. The means whereby He heals are various. There will be no feebleness in the purpose; no inadequacy in the power; no deficiency in the means; no failure in the result. When He heals, it is “without money and without price.” Nay, He was Himself compelled to purchase at the hands of justice, the power of stopping the ravages of corruption, and drawing a line, beyond which the sin of leprosy should not spread. Video Jeremiah 29:1-14;Sincerely Seeking God: When we seek to know God, we should search for Him with all our hearts, knowing Just by sitting at Jesus’ feet. Jeremiah was a sensitive man who wore his heart on his sleeve. But the chief seat and residence of sin is the heart (Jeremiah 4:18). We shall have to wait till the hereafter to know all that is meant by that great word. And the penitent transgressor not only feels his heart naturally lifted up to God in prayer, when convinced that it is He from whom cometh his aid, he also applies in that way, in conformity to the Divine institution. We now then see the benefit of this confirmation; it assures the faithful that they shall find in God whatever they may want, for they do not obscure the glory of God by transferring to themselves what peculiarly belongs to him, but confess that in him dwells what they cannot find in themselves. Jeremiah 15:17 - I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, Nor did I exult. heal me ‒ BDB 950, KB 1272, Qal IMPERATIVE and I will be healed ‒ Niphal IMPERFECT used in a COHORTATIVE sense 1. We identify salvation with conquests and suffering, and a vesture stained with blood; it calls us, in special language, to draw near, and kiss the Son, and to support our everyday trials, by giving our thoughts to that surpassingly severe trial which He passed through as a Conqueror upon the Cross. PRAYER FOR PROTECTION AND SAFETY, Jeremiah 17:14-18. Viz., of that cordolium heartfelt grief that my malicious countrymen cause me. The infinite efficacy of Christ’s atonement, as showing God’s readiness as well as ability to pardon. Read Jeremiah 17 commentary using Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete). Have you, and have I the right apprehension of our God as a Father? Clarke's Jeremiah 17:14 Bible Commentary Heal me - and I shall be healed - That is, I shall be thoroughly healed, and effectually saved, if thou undertake for me. As expressing a deep concern about salvation and an earnest desire to obtain it. ); for his preaching of God's word had brought him nothing but persecution and suffering. (J. S. Mayer, M. He explains, on the contrary, that in his calling he has neither acted of his own accord, nor wished for misfortune to the people, but that he has spoken by the inspiration of God alone. Thou art my praise. The prophet was even sick at heart of their unworthy usages, and prays help and healing, ne totus et ipse labescat inter auditores deploratissimos, lest he should perish by them, and with them. The reason why we feel helpless and anxious when encountering difficulties is that we lack faith. Its very vitals are affected by sin. 2. God told Jeremiah that He would not hear the prayers prayed for the people of Judah (Jeremiah 14:11). The phrase is often used of Israel (see on Jeremiah 14:9), and, as here applied, intimates that a faithful prophet was, as it were, the embodied ideal of an Israelite. It begins with a sinner’s principles, for if the principle of our actions be not a part of God’s holy teaching, and grafted by the Spirit of Christ into those who are the children of His adoption, it is one of the unsanctified impulses of nature. Has never failed. - The occasion for this prayer is furnished by the attacks of his enemies, who ask in scorn what then has become of that which he proclaims as the word of the Lord, why it does not come to pass. No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Jeremiah 17:14. The prophet’s cry. With regard to the soul, it is well to find ourselves there, and the sooner the better; for it is not a hopeless place by any means. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved. Jeremiah 48:2, 1 Samuel 15:23; 1 Kings 15:13 : from being a shepherd after Thee, i.e., I have not withdrawn myself from following after Thee as a shepherd. Biblical Commentary Jeremiah 31:7-14 EXEGESIS: THE BOOK OF COMFORT: THE BROAD CONTEXT Chapters 1-29 constitute stage one of God's redemptive plan for Judah and Israel. Not one single faculty has escaped; all are polluted, all diseased. Lord, humble it; my unbelieving heart! Well, precisely because he trusted the Lord! take it away, and give me faith; give me submission to your mind and will; take me as I am with all my sin and shame and work in me everything well-pleasing in your sight, for "You are my praise. Jeremiah 28:1-17; False Teachers: Spiritual leaders in the church are to confront false teachers. 2. Jeremiah here mentions this either as a plea with God for mercy to their land, in honour of the throne of his glory ch. 2. By things pleasant, things painful; comforts and crosses; by what He gives, by what He takes away; by friends, by foes; by saints, by sinners; by the Church, by the world; by sickness, by health; by life and by death; He heals the sin-sick soul. It is as if the penitent said to God whom he is addressing, “Were any other being to undertake my salvation, I should not be saved. Study the bible online using commentary on Jeremiah 17 and more! Jeremiah 17, Coffman Commentaries on the Bible, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary, by the leading authority in the Church of Christ, presents a verse level look at the Bible. Sins are diseases; healing them is the forgiveness of them; God only can grant this: or this may have respect to the consolation of him, whose soul was distressed, grieved, and wounded, with the consideration of the sins of his people, and the calamities coming upon them on that account: save me, and I shall be saved; with a temporal, spiritual, and eternal salvation; save me from the corruptions of the times, from the designs of my enemies; preserve me to thy kingdom and glory; there are none saved but whom the Lord saves, and those that are saved by him are saved to a purpose; they can never perish: for thou art my praise; the cause of it, by reason of mercies bestowed; the object of it, whom he did and would praise evermore, because of his favours, particularly the blessings of healing and salvation by him; see Psalm 103:1. 1. It is the soul’s worst enemy, a wandering, faithless state, that will never lead us to Bethlehem, and as the seed of the bond woman must be utterly cast out. American King James Version ×). Thou art תּהלּתי, the object of my praises; cf. Save me, for thou art my praise — It is from thee only that I expect relief and comfort in all my troubles: and as I acknowledge that all the blessings I enjoy come from thee, so it is to thee I return all thanks and praise. The Help of the helpless is ready there at the call of distress. “In spite of it, Jeremiah continued to plead for the people, and that Jehovah permitted him to do so, patiently arguing with him.” (Morgan) 2. 1. 5. Our wisdom is to be willing to have them thoroughly cured, honestly to wish this, cost what it may, “Heal me.”. One sin has in it all enmity, rebellion, distance from God, all deceitfulness, hardness; and yet, how slight are our deepest views; how poor and feeble our most heartfelt repentance; how unfeeling our most touching sorrow. "As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, So is he who gets riches, but not by right; It will leave … A.). II. Above all, to trust not only in Him, but in the blessed confidence of a simple faith that He is able to heal, and will heal, to come to Him with the prophet’s cry, “Heal Thou me.” (J. H. Evans, M. It requires omnipotence to subdue them. (G. Now we all know that the helpful spirit was very characteristic of Gordon, but where was it he learned it? Jeremiah 17:14, ESV: "Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise." Heal me, O Lord, &c. — Most interpreters understand the prophet as addressing God here in his own behalf. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia. The experience Jeremiah had had in his calling seemed to contradict the truth, that trust in the Lord brings blessing (Jeremiah 17:7. Ver. or a little later. "O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high … Hence the worse the world is, and the greater the licentiousness of sin, the more necessity there is for praying God to keep us by his wonderful power, as it were in the very regions of hell. The prophet prayed to Yahweh, the One he praised, for healing and deliverance. ( Jeremiah 15 Commentary - The Pulpit Commentaries ) Sin is by all human skill and human power incurable (Jeremiah 2:22). In this sense prophets, too, feed the people, if they, following the Lord as chief shepherd, declare God's word to the people. All others start a new strophe at Jer. Jeremiah 17:14 NIV • Jeremiah 17:14 NLT • Jeremiah 17:14 ESV • Jeremiah 17:14 NASB • Jeremiah 17:14 KJV • Jeremiah 17:14 Interlinear • Jeremiah 17:14 Commentaries • Jeremiah 17:14 Parallel Texts • Jeremiah 17:14 Bible Apps • Jeremiah 17:14 Parallel • Bible Hub Why? The distinction between healing and salvation. Earlier he had spoken of his pain that refused healing ( Jeremiah 15:18). 15:1-9 ‒ YHWH responds to their prayer. We cannot now indulge the senses as we did; we were once their slaves, they are now our handmaids, and enter freely with us into the liberty of the Gospel. Chapters 30-33 constitute stage two They had gone astray and had willingly A heartfelt application to God for salvation through the medium of prayer. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10:21). Those who trust to their own righteousness and strength, and think they can do without Christ, make flesh their arm, and their souls cannot prosper in graces or comforts. 14:17-18 ‒ Jeremiah's vision of the coming destruction Jer. Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. This was merely Jeremiah's way of saying, "I have not abandoned the mission you have given me. Yet Jeremiah could not stop praying. But all this is mere trifling; for the Prophet here not only implores help, and prays God to succor his infirmity, but he confesses that it is God’s work alone to heal and to save him. Playing Through the Pain: Growing in Darkness. It requires infinite patience to bear with these soul-diseases. 1. Oh, how little do we know its deep defilement (1 Kings 8:38). ", If ever I have blessed you, it has been for your goodness to my soul; if ever my heart has been tuned to your praise, if ever my lips have thanked you, it has been for the riches of your grace, and the manifestations of your mercy. East Campus: 8711 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85710 Praise should be our truest delight. II. And then, “save.” That means more than heal. He gave orders to his men to hang out signals of distress. 17:14. Heal … save—not only make me whole (as to the evils of soul as well as body which I am exposed to by contact with ungodly foes, Jer 15:18), but keep me so. The the Septuagint omits the first four verses, but other Greek versions have IV. Crossman. to be the day of his entering upon the office of prophet - a view that needs no refutation. Thou art my praise - The whole glory of the work of salvation belongs to thee alone. Both of these blessings are the precious and enduring treasures of redemption; though one of them is but a mean to an end; if I am not healed I cannot be saved; my earthly heart must not only be emptied of its enmity and rebellion, and deceivableness of unrighteousness, but of whatever hinders it, on its way to glory. American King James Version ×, continues to afflict the land (Jeremiah 14:1-6 Jeremiah 14:1-6 [1] The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. They indeed confess that it is not in man’s power to stave himself; but they afterwards pull down and subvert what they seem to confess, for they say that the grace of the Spirit concurs with free-will, and that man saves himself while God is co-operating with him. If then we own ourselves destitute of all power, and flee to God under the consciousness of such a want, we shall doubtless obtain whatever is needful for us; but if we are inflated with the conceit of our own power, or of our own righteousness, the door is closed against us. To put ourselves fairly into His hands. He had been divinely called to denounce Israel's spiritual apostasy and proclaim severe judgement upon them. 14:21), or as an aggravation of the sin of his people in forsaking God though his throne was among them, and so profaning his crown and the place of his sanctuary.II. break it to pieces; here is this lust! "The same proclamation is given today to us, inheritors of Jeremiah's task. The only clue to a date in the whole passage is in Jeremiah 17:15, where, the people taunted Jeremiah because none of his prophecies had come to pass. We yearn to feel “home,” a place full of love, security, comfort. "The day of trouble," the ill, disastrous day, is made out by Ng. 'לא אצתּי cannot mean: I have not pressed myself forward to follow Thee as shepherd, i.e., pressed myself forward into Thy service in vain and overweening self-conceit (Umbr.). Jeremiah 17:14 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Jeremiah 17:14, NIV: "Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise." Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Jeremiah 17:13 : Jeremiah 17:15 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. Psalm 71:6; Deuteronomy 10:21. 17:14 Jeremiah begins his lists as prayer requests to YHWH. 8 Several reliable scholars believed that Jeremiah's ministry ended about 587 B.C. Jeremiah 17:14 I really liked this today because I think we try to heal ourselves a lot of different ways that really don't work. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia. 's rendering, who, taking רעה in its literal sense, puts the meaning thus: I have not pressed myself away from being a shepherd, in order to go after Thee. REFLECTION Conversion of Eric Clapton Success came to him early and the world of rock-and-roll bathed him in a culture of alcohol, drugs, and irresponsibility. Is this so? The confidence which the true penitent feels, that if the salvation which he asks be granted, it will be altogether such as his circumstances require, and such as will more than gratify his utmost wishes. Jeremiah knew he had been called to preach a tough message. Jeremiah 17:14 Jeremiah was a sensitive man who wore his heart on his sleeve. This outline is based on the one given in Barclay’s 2 volume commentary on Jeremiah, rather THE DAILY STUDY BIBLE SERIES on the Old Testament that was added to Barclay’s earlier work on the New Testament. (14) Heal me.—The prophet, consciously or unconsciously, contrasts himself with the deserters from Jehovah. let it come now. On the other hand, as Cheyne noted, "It means amply sufficient."[25]. King James Version Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. 18 The word that came to Jeremiah from the L ord: 2 “Arise, and go down to q the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear 1 my words.” 3 So I went down to r the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. He not only cherishes a lively aversion to all that stings him with remorse, or that fills him with alarm; he mourns also the loss of those positive blessings of which his apostasy has deprived him, and thirsts for their recovery. The prophet is sure that God will perfect His work of healing and saving. But in this sig. From the principle the work of healing is carried forwards to the various actions that branch from it; the wild grape is no longer the curse of the vineyard. III. These words express a deep concern about salvation, and an earnest desire to obtain it. “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. 1. Sin is the disease of the soul and is so felt. Heal Me. 15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the The prayer of Jeremiah 17:14, "heal me," reminds one of Psalm 6:3; Psalm 30:3. ", John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary by J.C.Philpot on select texts of the Bible. — Jeremiah 17:14, If we feel that we have ruined our own souls, that no human arm can save us, that we cannot bring salvation into our own consciences, nor of ourselves see any beauty, glory, sweetness, or suitability in the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet are striving with prayer and supplication to touch the hem of his garment, to taste the sweetness of his dying love, to feel the efficacy of his atoning blood, to be wrapped up in his glorious robe of righteousness, and to know him in the sweet manifestations of his grace, we too can say, "Save me, and I shall be saved. I. Jeremiah 17:6-9 It is the heart that motivates us to break faith with God's Word. Is that not what happened in the Garden of Eden? I. Suddenly a brilliant idea struck the earl. מרעה may stand for מהיות , cf. When the husbandman takes the plant itself in hand, it yields naturally to the superior excellency of the graft, and partakes of its very character and condition. 3. to be able to go down deep into the spirit of the text, and to say, “Thou art my praise”? Chapters 30-33 constitute stage two Yea, and it must be refilled, with that measure of Divine love which will spur it forward, and strengthen and advance it on its journey towards Zion. The rest I defer till to-morrow. These are the words of the prophet, sensible of his own sins and backslidings, and of the part which he himself had in these corrupt and declining times; and being conscious of his own impotency to cure himself; and being fully satisfied of the power of the Lord to heal him; and being well assured, if he was healed by him, he should be thoroughly and effectually healed; therefore he applies unto him. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation. to seek after a person or thing, and have translated: I have not pressed myself away from keeping after Thee, or from being one that followed Thee faithfully. This is another of Jeremiah's laments/confessions. We cannot in any case abide by Ng. Against this rendering the fact seems to weigh, that usually it is not the prophets, but only the kings and princes, that are entitled the shepherds of the people; cf. Lastly, the theme of homecoming (31:10) gives way to restoration in verses 11-12, and celebration in verses 13-14.

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