The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Search This Resource     Navigator Previous Next Verse 9 Chapter 3 Verse 11 Chapter 5          Printer friendly version   Additional Resources  · Geneva Study Bible  · Jamieson, Fausset, Brown  · Matthew Henry Complete  · Matthew Henry Concise  · Treasury of Scripture  · Wesley's Explanatory Notes   Jeremiah 4:10 Then said I, ah, Lord God! &c.] Expressing great sorrow and concern: this "ah" is by way of lamentation. The Targum interprets it as a petition, ``and I said, receive my prayer, O Lord God:'' surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem: what the false prophets did, that God is said to do, because he suffered them to deceive the people; see (1 Kings 22:20-23) . The Targum ascribes the deception to the false prophets, and not to God, ``surely behold the false prophets deceive this people, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem;'' or this may be ironically said, because the false prophets pretended to speak in the name of the Lord; wherefore Jeremiah says, "surely thou hast greatly deceived"… "saying, ye shall have peace"; as the false prophets did, (Jeremiah 6:14) : whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul; takes away the life, many are slain by it; so the Targum, ``and now behold the sword killeth among the people;'' great slaughter is made by it. L'Empereur F23 observes that the word here used signifies, in the Arabic language, to educate or bring up; and then the sense is, ``ah, Lord, thou hast brought up this people with great tenderness, and promised them all manner of happiness; but now thou thunderest out threatenings of calamities of all sorts, and death itself; and assigned a place for the sword to enter into their very souls;'' so the Arabic word used in the version of (Acts 22:2) (1 Timothy 4:6) . FOOTNOTES: F23 Not. ad Mosis Kimchi, (odoiporia) , p. 186.

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