{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/jer009.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/jer009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/jer009.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nJeremiah 9:2\n \njer 9:2\nA lodging place - Some retiring place, though it were but some mean hut in the wilderness. \nJeremiah 9:5\n \njer 9:5\nWeary - They use industry, and contrivance in it, they spare no labour. \nJeremiah 9:7\n \njer 9:7\nTry them - By melting them, I will bring upon them, the fire of the Chaldean war, that shall purge away those deceits in which they trust, that the remnant may be purified. For how - I have tried all other means. \nJeremiah 9:10\n \njer 9:10\nWailing - The prophet having taken up a lamentation for the slaughter of the people, now re - assumes it for the desolation of the whole land. The mountains shall not be able to secure them, nor the valleys to feed them. \nJeremiah 9:12\n \njer 9:12\nWho is - Is there not a wise man among you, that will search into the cause of all these threatened judgments. \nJeremiah 9:16\n \njer 9:16\nA sword - But I will follow them with the sword, 'till they be destroyed, such of them as were appointed for destruction; for otherwise, they were not all consumed, a full end was not to be made. \nJeremiah 9:17\n \njer 9:17\nWomen - Who were hired to tear their hair, and beat their breasts, with other mourning postures, a foolish custom which has obtained in most ages and countries. Cunning - Such as are most skilful in it. \nJeremiah 9:20\n \njer 9:20\nEvery one - It denotes how large and universal the mourning shall be. \nJeremiah 9:21\n \njer 9:21\nDeath - The unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, alluding to the storming of a city, wherein there is no respect had to sex, youth, or age. \nJeremiah 9:22\n \njer 9:22\nAs the handful - They shall be no more regarded than a few scattered ears that drop out of the reapers hand, which either lie on the ground and are eaten by birds, or trod to dirt by beasts. None - None shall have so much respect to them, as to afford burial. \nJeremiah 9:24\n \njer 9:24\nKnoweth - Whether we make any curious distinction between understanding God, as if that be more speculative, whereby we rightly apprehend his nature; and knowing God, as if that be more practical, as directing the conversation, we need not here enquire; yet certainly both center in this, that we so know and understand God as to trust in him, and depend on him alone in all conditions. Exercise - Kindness, as it relates to his own people; judgment, in punishing the wicked; righteousness, as he deals justly and uprightly with both.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah Chapter 9","type":"page"}