Jeremiah 1:13 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Jeremiah 1:13

11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a¹ branch of an almond tree.”

12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am¹ ready to perform My word.”

13 And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see ^aa boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”

14 Then the Lord said to me:
“Out of the ^anorth calamity shall break forth
On all the inhabitants of the land.

15 For behold, I am ^acalling
All the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says the Lord;
“They shall come and ^beach one set his throne
At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
Against all its walls all around,
And against all the cities of Judah.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Jeremiah 1:13

Another vision, signifying what is the "word" about to be "performed," and by what instrumentality.

seething—literally, "blown under"; so boiling by reason of the flame under it kept brisk by blowing. An Oriental symbol of a raging war.

toward—rather, "from the north." Literally, "from the face of the region situated towards the north" (compare Jeremiah 1:14-15) [MAURER]. The pot in the north rested on one side, its mouth being about to pour forth its contents southwards, namely, on Judea. Babylon, though east of Judea, was regarded by the Hebrews as north, because they appropriated the term "east" to Arabia-Deserta, stretching from Palestine to the Euphrates; or rather [BOCHART], the reference here is not to the site, but to the route of the Babylonians; not being able to cross the desert, they must enter the Holy Land by the northern frontier, through Riblah in Hamath (Jeremiah 39:5; Jeremiah 52:9).

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