*Jeremiah 17:16 / *Jer. 17:16 -
The original Hebrew word (ra`ah: H7462) translated as "being a pastor" can mean just that. But it can also mean "keeping company with" (Proverbs 29:3), in this case with YHWH God Himself. So the Hebrew translated as: "I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee" can mean: "I have not hastened from keeping company with thee and following thee". Compare what Psalms 139:18b says.
Also, consider how many pastors are (in their words) "so busy serving my congregation" that they have "no time" to spend alone with YHWH God. Compare what Mark 6:31,46 says. How can anyone be a pastor while forsaking private time with the ultimate Pastor (1 Peter 2:25, John 10:14, Hebrews 13:20)?
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*Jeremiah 18:7-10 / *Jer. 18:7 -
This does not refer to the eternal fate of individuals (Romans 9:11-23).
(See Romans 9:11 below)
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*Jeremiah 18:9-10 / *Jer. 18:9 -
(Re: Why doesn't Christian Futurism believe that both the promises and the threats are sure?)
It does. See Amos 9:15 below.
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*Jeremiah 19:3 / *Jer. 19:3 -
The original Hebrew word (tsalal: H6750) translated as "tingle" can mean "quiver" in fear (Habakkuk 3:1).
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*Jeremiah 19:11 / *Jer. 19:11 -
This could refer to Judah's destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
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*Jeremiah 20:3 / *Jer. 20:3 -
"Magor-missabib" (H4032-H5439) can mean: "fear (magor) on every side (missabib)" (Jeremiah 20:10). That is, the opposite of "Pashur" (H6583), which can mean "liberty".
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*Jeremiah 22:6-7 / *Jer. 22:6 -
This refers to ancient Judah when it had a Davidic king (Jeremiah 22:1-2), and to that kingdom's destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
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*Jeremiah 23:3-8 / *Jer. 23:3 -
This can refer to the future Millennium (of Revelation 20:4-6).
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*Jeremiah 23:19 / *Jer. 23:19 -
Here the original Hebrew word (ca'ar: H5591) translated as "whirlwind" can mean "tempest", as in Isaiah 29:6, which will occur right before Jesus Christ defeats all nations, which will have conquered Jerusalem (Isaiah 29:7). This refers to the same time as Zechariah 14, which will be fulfilled right before and at Jesus' future, Second Coming. So Jeremiah 23:19 could be fulfilled at the Second Coming.
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*Jeremiah 23:20 / *Jer. 23:20 -
See Revelation 10:7 below.
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*Jeremiah 23:33-38 / *Jer. 23:33 -
The original Hebrew word (massa': H4853) translated as "burden" can mean "prophecy" (Proverbs 30:1, Proverbs 31:1), and can refer either to a prophetic vision (Habakkuk 1:1, Nahum 1:1) or a message (Zechariah 12:1, Malachi 1:1), or to a literal, physical burden which is carried (Jeremiah 17:21-27). This double meaning may have arisen from a prophet feeling the mental burden of a prophecy before he gave it to other people, and, in a case where what he gave them was a prophecy of their impending doom, the mental burden which they then felt (e.g. 1 Kings 20:42-43).
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*Jeremiah 23:36 / *Jer. 23:36 -
This meant that YHWH God wanted the Jews in the time of the prophet Jeremiah (in the sixth century BC) to stop using the phrase: "the burden of YHWH" when they asked various prophets in Judah what vision or message they had received from YHWH. For that phrase had become so grossly misused: Most of the prophets in Jeremiah's time had become thoroughly corrupt, and were giving-out false prophetic messages and dreams which were not from YHWH (Jeremiah 23:11-32).
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*Jeremiah 24:2 / *Jer. 24:2 -
The original Hebrew word (ra`: H7451) translated as "naughty" can mean "bad", in the sense of something being of poor quality (Leviticus 27:10). (Note also the similarity of the Hebrew word to the name of the Egyptian god.)
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*Jeremiah 25:11-12 / *Jer. 25:11 -
A future ruler of the literal city of Babylon (in Iraq) could rule the nations again in our future.
(See Revelation 13:1 below. Also, compare Jeremiah 29:10 below)
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*Jeremiah 25:26 / *Jer. 25:26 -
"Sheshach" (H8347) could refer to Babylon. For compare the parallel construction of Jeremiah 51:41. And see Easton's for how "Sheshach" can be a secret Jewish spelling of "Babel" under an ancient system whereby the letters of the Hebrew alphabet were encoded as follows: the first letter in the alphabet was encoded by the last letter in the alphabet, the second letter in the alphabet was encoded by the second-to-last letter in the alphabet, and so on. So to decode the Hebrew letters of "Sheshach", which are Shiyn, Shiyn, and Kaph, one would need to know that Shiyn is the second-to-last letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and Kaph is the eleventh letter. Then one would need to replace Shiyn with the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet, which is Beyth. And one would need to replace Kaph with the eleventh-to-last letter in the Hebrew alphabet, which is Lamed. So the Shiyn, Shiyn, and Kaph of "Sheshach" become the Beyth, Beyth, and Lamed of "Babel" (H0894), also translated as "Babylon" (Jeremiah 25:12).
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*Jeremiah 25:30-38 / *Jer. 25:30 / *Jer. 25:33 -
This could refer to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For compare the shout and treading of Jeremiah 25:30b with the Second-Coming shout and treading of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and Revelation 19:15b. And compare the giving of the wicked to the sword in Jeremiah 25:31b with the Second-Coming giving of the wicked to the sword by Jesus Christ Himself in Revelation 19:21.
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*Jeremiah 25:38 / *Jer. 25:38 -
The original Hebrew word (yanah: H3238) translated as "oppressor" can mean "destroyer" (Psalms 74:8).
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*Jeremiah 26:18 / *Jer. 26:18 -
Note that the Micah 3:12 prophecy quoted in Jeremiah 26:18 (like the prophecy by Jeremiah himself in Jeremiah 22:6-7, for example) was fulfilled in 586 BC, at the hands of the Babylonians.
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*Jeremiah 27:16 / *Jer. 27:16 -
Here the "shortly" must he understood from the viewpoint of men. For it was what men were saying, not God. But the "shortly" in Revelation 1:1 is the Word of God, and so can be understood from His viewpoint, in which 1,000 years are like one day (2 Peter 3:8-9).
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*Jeremiah 29:10 / *Jer. 29:10 -
Here the seventy years could have already been fulfilled in ancient times. For they could be the same, already-fulfilled seventy years as Zechariah 7:5, 2 Chronicles 36:20-23, Zechariah 1:12, and Daniel 9:2.
(Compare Jeremiah 25:11 above)
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*Jeremiah 30:7 / *Jer. 30:7 -
(*Jacob's trouble)
The time of Jacob's trouble which he will be saved out of (Jeremiah 30:7) will not be the entire future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, but only the final pillaging of the Jews in Jerusalem at the very end of the Tribulation, right before Jesus Christ returns and saves them (Zechariah 14:2-5). The Church, including both Jews and Gentiles (Revelation 7:9,14), will be in the Tribulation. For Christians will be in the Tribulation (Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4, Matthew 24:9-13). And there are no Christians outside of the Church (Ephesians 4:4-6).
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*Jeremiah 30:21 / *Jer. 30:21 -
"Their governor" could refer to "Nehemiah the governor" (Nehemiah 12:26) after the return of the Jews from their Babylonian captivity (Jeremiah 30:18) in 538 BC. It could also refer to Jesus Christ during the future Millennium (Zechariah 14:9-11), after the captivity which will occur right before His future, Second Coming (Zechariah 14:2-4).
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*Jeremiah 30:23 / *Jer. 30:23 -
See Jeremiah 23:19 above.
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*Jeremiah 31:1-7 / *Jer. 31:1 / *Jer. 31:7 -
Here the remnant of Israel is the very small remnant of genetic Israel which will become Christian (Isaiah 1:8-9, Romans 9:27-29). There is also a spiritual Israel which is different than genetic Israel (Romans 9:3-8). Spiritual Israel consists of all of the elect (Romans 9:11-13), both elect Jews and elect Gentiles (Romans 9:24).
(See also the "Nonelect Israelites" part of Romans 11:17 below. And see Romans 9:8 below)
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(Re: Revelation 17:18)
Jeremiah 31:7 can be an exhortation to the people in powerful ("chief") Gentile nations to sing, shout, and pray for the nation of Jacob/Israel, not that Jacob/Israel actually ruled over them, as the figurative Babylon of Revelation chapters 17-18 rules over them (Revelation 17:18).
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*Jeremiah 31:3 / *Jer. 31:3 -
God's love for the elect is not everlasting in the sense that after they become Christians they cannot ever lose their salvation, because they can (Hebrews 10:26-29, Hebrews 6:4-8, Matthew 25:26,30).
(See also Jude 1:21 below)
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*Jeremiah 31:8-9 / *Jer. 31:8 -
This can refer to the start of the future Millennium.
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*Jeremiah 31:22 / *Jer. 31:22 -
The original Hebrew words (cabab: H5437; and geber: H1397) translated as "compass a man" can mean "turn back a mighty man". For cabab is translated as "turn back" in Jeremiah 21:4. And geber is translated as "mighty" in Jeremiah 41:16. This is the same idea (although not the same instance) as 2 Kings 19:21, which refers to ancient Jerusalem (pictured as a woman) turning back the mighty man Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:20-21), by God's grace (2 Chronicles 32:22). Sennacherib was a king of ancient Assyria who had come to conquer Jerusalem.
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*Jeremiah 31:31-34 / *Jer. 31:31 -
(Re: Made only with Israel)
Jeremiah 31:31-33 does not have to say that the New Covenant is made "only" with Israel to mean that, just as it does not have to say that the Old Covenant Mosaic law was made "only" with Israel to mean that (Jeremiah 31:32). It is because the New Covenant is made only with Israel that salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22b), and the Gospel goes to the Jews first (Romans 1:16). It is also why Jesus Christ said Matthew 15:24,26 in the context of being asked to minister to someone who was not of Israel (Matthew 15:22-26). It is also why Gentile Christians have been grafted into Israel so that they can partake of the salvation offered to Israel (Romans 11:17,24, Ephesians 2:12,19, Galatians 3:29).
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(Re: Fulfilled)
The New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31-34 is already fulfilled, even though the prior, Millennial prophecy of Jeremiah 31:1-14,16-25 (Jeremiah 31:15 was fulfilled in the first century AD: Matthew 2:17-18) and the other Millennial prophecies have not yet been fulfilled. For the making of the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31,33) was fulfilled at Jesus Christ's Crucifixion (Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 9:15-17), just as the New Covenant being made with the houses of Israel and Judah (Jeremiah 31:31,33) has been fulfilled (Acts 2:5,36-41, Romans 11:1,17,24). And the New Covenant being not according to the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law (Jeremiah 31:32) has been fulfilled (Hebrews 7:18-19, Ephesians 2:15-16, Colossians 2:14-17). And the New Covenant law of Jesus being written on the hearts of Jewish and Gentile Christians (Jeremiah 31:33) has been fulfilled (Romans 6:17, Ephesians 6:6, Galatians 6:2). And "they shall teach no more every man his neighbour" (Jeremiah 31:34) has been fulfilled (1 John 2:27). And "they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them" (Jeremiah 31:34) has been fulfilled (1 John 2:13). And "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more" (Jeremiah 31:34) has been fulfilled (1 John 2:12).
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*Jeremiah 31:32 / *Jer. 31:32 -
This verse saying that God "was" Israel's husband is like a man saying to his daughter: "You left me even though I was your father". This does not contradict him still considering himself to be her father. For even if the father had legally disowned the daughter after she had left him while still a minor to go live with some other family that ended up legally adopting her, this does not contradict him still considering himself to be her biological father. For there is no breaking that connection. In the same way, even after God legally divorced Israel after she had abandoned him to worship other things, this does not contradict Him still considering Himself to be her husband (Jeremiah 3:14). For there is no breaking that connection entirely in God's eyes (Mark 10:8-12).
Also, Jeremiah 31:32 saying that God "was" Israel's husband does not contradict that God still wants Israel to return to Him (Jeremiah 3:14), just as it does not contradict that He has made the New Covenant with Israel (Jeremiah 31:31-37, Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:25). In the father/daughter analogy, it would be like the father sending letters to his estranged daughter asking her to come back to him, and him writing up a legal document which if she signed would make her legally his daughter again.
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*Jeremiah 31:34 / *Jer. 31:34 -
(I will remember their sin no more)
See Hebrews 10:17 below.
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*Jeremiah 32:37-44 / *Jer. 32:37 -
This can refer to the return of the Jews from their Babylonian captivity (Jeremiah 32:44c) in 538 BC, and also to the return of the Jews from their future captivity which will occur right before Jesus Christ's Second Coming (Zechariah 14:2-21).
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*Jeremiah 32:40 / *Jer. 32:40 -
This does not mean once-saved-always-saved. For the fear of God comes via His Spirit (Isaiah 11:2). And Christians can wrongly employ their free will to quench the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19), and to depart from God, to the ultimate loss of their salvation (Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12b).
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*Jeremiah 33:4 / *Jer. 33:4 -
The original Hebrew word (colelah: H5550) translated as "mounts" can mean besieging mounds or "banks" of dirt (2 Samuel 20:15).
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*Jeremiah 38:11 / *Jer. 38:11 -
Here the original Hebrew word (below': H1094) translated both times as "old" can mean "worn out". And the Hebrew word (cechabah: H5499) translated as "cast clouts" can mean "torn cloths". And the Hebrew word (malach: H4418) translated as "rotten rags" can mean "worn out clothes". These were meant to cushion the prophet Jeremiah's armpits while he was hoisted out of the death-pit by ropes (Jeremiah 38:12-13).
Also, note that Jeremiah is careful to say that the man who saved his life was an Ethiopian (Jeremiah 38:7-13). No one else cared to save him.
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*Jeremiah 42:15-19 / *Jer. 42:15 -
While at the time of the prophet Jeremiah, in the sixth century BC, the Israelites were not to enter Egypt (Jeremiah 42:15-19), at the prior time of Joseph, some 1,300 years earlier, it was okay for them to enter Egypt (Genesis 46:3-4), to stay alive during a famine (Genesis 45:7-13).
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(Re: God stripped us of years of provisions for the future Tribulation and told us to trust Him)
He could have done that because you were preparing too early (Ecclesiastes 3:1,6), and preparing out of a lack of trust in him (cf. Jeremiah 42:15-19). But at some point in our future, God could show you, like He showed Joseph, when it is the time to prepare (Genesis 41:35-36), and that it is possible to prepare while still trusting in Him (Matthew 24:45-46).
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(Re: Like with Elijah, God can send a raven to feed us) / (*Josephines)
Amen (1 Kings 17:4). And like with the Israelites, at the proper time, God can send a Joseph to feed us (Genesis 45:7-13). Or, He can show us that we need to be a Joseph for ourselves and others (cf. 1 Timothy 5:8, Matthew 24:45-46). There could be some future Josephs (and Josephines), Christians who will prepare different, fully-stocked hiding places in the wilderness to which some Christians will flee at the start of the future Antichrist's literal 3.5-year worldwide reign (Revelation 12:6,14, Revelation 13:5-18).
(See also Isaiah 26:19 above, and Revelation 12 below)
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*Jeremiah 46:10 / *Jer. 46:10 -
This referred to an ancient day of the Lord which occurred at the defeat of the armies of ancient Egypt, under Pharaoh Necho, by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Carchemish by the Euphrates (Jeremiah 46:2) in 605 BC.
Regarding the future day of the Lord...
(See 2 Thessalonians 2:2 below)
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*Jeremiah 46:27-28 / *Jer. 46:27 -
This can refer to the future, New Earth (Revelation 21:1-8), as in a new surface for the earth. For not even during the preceding, future Millennium (Revelation 20:4-6) will God "make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee" (Jeremiah 46:28). For they will continue to exist during the Millennium (Zechariah 14:16-19, Revelation 20:7-9).
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*Jeremiah 47:4 / *Jer. 47:4 -
"Caphtor" (H3731) could refer to Crete, an island of Greece.
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*Jeremiah 48:11 / *Jer. 48:11 -
The original Hebrew word (shemer: H8105) translated as "lees", like the English word, can refer to the dregs, the sediment, which has settled down to the bottom of a cask of aging wine. "Settling" on one's lees is figurative of becoming complacent (Zephaniah 1:12).
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*Jeremiah 48:19 / *Jer. 48:19 -
The original Hebrew word (tsaphah: H6822) translated as "espy" can mean to wait and watch (Lamentations 4:17). The English word means "to catch sight of" (Webster's).
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*Jeremiah 49:1-32 / *Jer. 49:1 -
This can refer to when the Babylonians (Jeremiah 49:28-30) conquered the western Middle East in the sixth century BC, and took many of the people there into captivity (e.g. Jeremiah 49:3b,6).
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*Jeremiah 49:7-22 / *Jer. 49:7 -
This could include reference to a destruction of ancient Edom, perhaps one that occurred sometime subsequent to the destruction of ancient Judah and other countries by the Babylonians in 586 BC, which happened in the time of the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 27:1-10).
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*Jeremiah 49:17-18 / *Jer. 49:17 / *Jer. 49:18 -
This can include the meaning that ancient Edom was uninhabited for awhile after its defeat (Malachi 1:3). That is, Jeremiah 49:18 does not require that the area would never become inhabited again. For even Sodom will become inhabited again during the future Millennium (Ezekiel 16:53-56).
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*Jeremiah 49:23-27 / *Jer. 49:23 -
See 2 Kings 16:9 above.
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*Jeremiah 49:35-37 / *Jer. 49:35 -
This could be fulfilled at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For Jeremiah 49:38 can refer to what the returned Jesus will do at one point during the subsequent Millennium.
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*Jeremiah 50:2 / *Jer. 50:2 -
The original Hebrew word (shama': H8085) translated as "publish" can mean just that, in the sense of making a proclamation (1 Kings 15:22), whether by speaking or writing.
The Hebrew word (nec: H5251) translated as "standard", like the English word, can literally mean a pole, flag, or banner (Numbers 21:8, Isaiah 13:2). But one which stands for something, as a rallying point (Webster's). And in English, this can include what we usually think of as a "standard", in the sense of something which has "permanent value" (Webster's).
So when Christians "set up a standard", it should be the permanent standard of God's own Word the Holy Bible (2 Timothy 3:15 to 4:4), which "political correctness" today only wants to tear down and trample, as "hate speech". For modern man thinks that he can make up his own standards, out of whole cloth, out of whatever his evil mind desires (Romans 1:24-32).
(See also section 2 of Numbers 12 above, and section 2 of Romans 1:26 below)
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*Jeremiah 50:17 / *Jer. 50:17 -
(The king of Assyria hath devoured him)
See Isaiah 52:4 above.
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*Jeremiah 50:21 / *Jer. 50:21 -
"Merathaim" (H4850) could be the dual form of "marah" (H4751), which can mean "bitterness" (1 Samuel 1:10). So "Merathaim" could mean: "Double Bitterness". This could refer figuratively to Babylon regarding a "double" punishment (Revelation 18:6), just as Jerusalem would receive its own "double" punishment (Jeremiah 16:18, Isaiah 40:2b).
"Pekod" (H6489) is derived from a word (paqad: H6485) which can mean "punishment", in this case with regard to Babylon (Jeremiah 50:18).
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*Jeremiah 50:36 / *Jer. 50:36 -
The original Hebrew word (ya'al: H2973) translated as "dote" can mean "slack", or "yield".
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*Jeremiah 50:39 / *Jer. 50:39 -
The original Hebrew word ('iy: H0338) translated as "wild beasts of the islands" is related to the word under Job 22:30 above.
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*Jeremiah 50:41 / *Jer. 50:41 -
The original Hebrew word (yerekah: H3411) translated as "from the coasts" of the earth can mean from the "borders" (Genesis 49:13) of the earth, in the sense of the ends (the farthest parts) of the earth.
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*Jeremiah 51:11,28 / *Jer. 51:11 -
Here the "Medes" are not the ancient Medes who conquered the ancient city of Babylon (Daniel 5:28,31). For the ancient Medes did not make Babylon uninhabited (Jeremiah 51:29,37,43), but kept it as a thriving city which continued on for centuries.
(See also Isaiah 13(space) above)
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*Jeremiah 51:25 / *Jer. 51:25 -
This refers to the empire of Babylon (Jeremiah 51:24) symbolically as a mountain, just as Revelation 17:9 refers to seven empires (Revelation 17:10) symbolically as seven mountains, and just as Daniel 2:35b refers to Jesus Christ's future, earthly empire (Daniel 2:44) symbolically as a mountain.
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*Jeremiah 51:42,55b / *Jer. 51:42 / *Jer. 51:55b -
Here the waters can be figurative of nations of peoples (Revelation 17:1,15).
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*Lamentations 1:1 / *Lam. 1:1 -
(Re: Revelation 17:18, Revelation 18:7)
Lamentations 1:1 says that "tributary" Jerusalem only "was" "great" "among" the nations, not that it reigns over the nations (Revelation 17:18). And Lamentations 1:1 referred back to when Jerusalem, before its destruction in 586 BC, was only a "princess" "among" "provinces", not a queen over the earth (Revelation 18:7, Revelation 17:18).
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*Lamentations 1:3 / *Lam. 1:3 -
The original Hebrew words (beyn: H0996; and metsar: H4712) translated as "between the straits" can mean "among the distresses". For beyn can mean "among" (Jeremiah 25:16), and metsar can mean "distresses" (Psalms 118:5).
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*Lamentations 2:1 / *Lam. 2:1 -
(A cloud)
See Isaiah 44:22 above.
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*Lamentations 2:2 / *Lam. 2:2 -
(Re: A mis-reference to a cloud)
See Lamentations 2:1 above.
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*Lamentations 3:31-33 / *Lam. 3:31 -
This means that God will not chasten Christians forever for their unrepentant sins (Lamentations 3:39,42, Revelation 3:19). But He will not do that only if they repent from those sins (Lamentations 3:40). For if they wrongly employ their free will to not repent, then they will ultimately lose their salvation (Hebrews 10:26-29; 1 Corinthians 9:27, Luke 12:45-46).
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*Lamentations 3:44 / *Lam. 3:44 -
(A cloud)
See Isaiah 44:22 above.
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*Lamentations 5:4 / *Lam. 5:4 -
This seems an odd thing to lament about. For we all do this today and see it as good. But the author of this lamentation, the prophet Jeremiah, was thinking from a more-exalted viewpoint where people own their own land with their own water sources and sources of wood. Jeremiah is lamenting the state in which people are wage slaves (Lamentations 5:5b), forced to work for others and to pay others for even their most basic necessities.
(See also Leviticus 25:10 above, and Micah 4:4 below)
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The original Hebrew word (ra`ah: H7462) translated as "being a pastor" can mean just that. But it can also mean "keeping company with" (Proverbs 29:3), in this case with YHWH God Himself. So the Hebrew translated as: "I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee" can mean: "I have not hastened from keeping company with thee and following thee". Compare what Psalms 139:18b says.
Also, consider how many pastors are (in their words) "so busy serving my congregation" that they have "no time" to spend alone with YHWH God. Compare what Mark 6:31,46 says. How can anyone be a pastor while forsaking private time with the ultimate Pastor (1 Peter 2:25, John 10:14, Hebrews 13:20)?
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*Jeremiah 18:7-10 / *Jer. 18:7 -
This does not refer to the eternal fate of individuals (Romans 9:11-23).
(See Romans 9:11 below)
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*Jeremiah 18:9-10 / *Jer. 18:9 -
(Re: Why doesn't Christian Futurism believe that both the promises and the threats are sure?)
It does. See Amos 9:15 below.
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*Jeremiah 19:3 / *Jer. 19:3 -
The original Hebrew word (tsalal: H6750) translated as "tingle" can mean "quiver" in fear (Habakkuk 3:1).
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*Jeremiah 19:11 / *Jer. 19:11 -
This could refer to Judah's destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
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*Jeremiah 20:3 / *Jer. 20:3 -
"Magor-missabib" (H4032-H5439) can mean: "fear (magor) on every side (missabib)" (Jeremiah 20:10). That is, the opposite of "Pashur" (H6583), which can mean "liberty".
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*Jeremiah 22:6-7 / *Jer. 22:6 -
This refers to ancient Judah when it had a Davidic king (Jeremiah 22:1-2), and to that kingdom's destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
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*Jeremiah 23:3-8 / *Jer. 23:3 -
This can refer to the future Millennium (of Revelation 20:4-6).
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*Jeremiah 23:19 / *Jer. 23:19 -
Here the original Hebrew word (ca'ar: H5591) translated as "whirlwind" can mean "tempest", as in Isaiah 29:6, which will occur right before Jesus Christ defeats all nations, which will have conquered Jerusalem (Isaiah 29:7). This refers to the same time as Zechariah 14, which will be fulfilled right before and at Jesus' future, Second Coming. So Jeremiah 23:19 could be fulfilled at the Second Coming.
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*Jeremiah 23:20 / *Jer. 23:20 -
See Revelation 10:7 below.
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*Jeremiah 23:33-38 / *Jer. 23:33 -
The original Hebrew word (massa': H4853) translated as "burden" can mean "prophecy" (Proverbs 30:1, Proverbs 31:1), and can refer either to a prophetic vision (Habakkuk 1:1, Nahum 1:1) or a message (Zechariah 12:1, Malachi 1:1), or to a literal, physical burden which is carried (Jeremiah 17:21-27). This double meaning may have arisen from a prophet feeling the mental burden of a prophecy before he gave it to other people, and, in a case where what he gave them was a prophecy of their impending doom, the mental burden which they then felt (e.g. 1 Kings 20:42-43).
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*Jeremiah 23:36 / *Jer. 23:36 -
This meant that YHWH God wanted the Jews in the time of the prophet Jeremiah (in the sixth century BC) to stop using the phrase: "the burden of YHWH" when they asked various prophets in Judah what vision or message they had received from YHWH. For that phrase had become so grossly misused: Most of the prophets in Jeremiah's time had become thoroughly corrupt, and were giving-out false prophetic messages and dreams which were not from YHWH (Jeremiah 23:11-32).
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*Jeremiah 24:2 / *Jer. 24:2 -
The original Hebrew word (ra`: H7451) translated as "naughty" can mean "bad", in the sense of something being of poor quality (Leviticus 27:10). (Note also the similarity of the Hebrew word to the name of the Egyptian god.)
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*Jeremiah 25:11-12 / *Jer. 25:11 -
A future ruler of the literal city of Babylon (in Iraq) could rule the nations again in our future.
(See Revelation 13:1 below. Also, compare Jeremiah 29:10 below)
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*Jeremiah 25:26 / *Jer. 25:26 -
"Sheshach" (H8347) could refer to Babylon. For compare the parallel construction of Jeremiah 51:41. And see Easton's for how "Sheshach" can be a secret Jewish spelling of "Babel" under an ancient system whereby the letters of the Hebrew alphabet were encoded as follows: the first letter in the alphabet was encoded by the last letter in the alphabet, the second letter in the alphabet was encoded by the second-to-last letter in the alphabet, and so on. So to decode the Hebrew letters of "Sheshach", which are Shiyn, Shiyn, and Kaph, one would need to know that Shiyn is the second-to-last letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and Kaph is the eleventh letter. Then one would need to replace Shiyn with the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet, which is Beyth. And one would need to replace Kaph with the eleventh-to-last letter in the Hebrew alphabet, which is Lamed. So the Shiyn, Shiyn, and Kaph of "Sheshach" become the Beyth, Beyth, and Lamed of "Babel" (H0894), also translated as "Babylon" (Jeremiah 25:12).
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*Jeremiah 25:30-38 / *Jer. 25:30 / *Jer. 25:33 -
This could refer to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For compare the shout and treading of Jeremiah 25:30b with the Second-Coming shout and treading of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and Revelation 19:15b. And compare the giving of the wicked to the sword in Jeremiah 25:31b with the Second-Coming giving of the wicked to the sword by Jesus Christ Himself in Revelation 19:21.
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*Jeremiah 25:38 / *Jer. 25:38 -
The original Hebrew word (yanah: H3238) translated as "oppressor" can mean "destroyer" (Psalms 74:8).
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*Jeremiah 26:18 / *Jer. 26:18 -
Note that the Micah 3:12 prophecy quoted in Jeremiah 26:18 (like the prophecy by Jeremiah himself in Jeremiah 22:6-7, for example) was fulfilled in 586 BC, at the hands of the Babylonians.
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*Jeremiah 27:16 / *Jer. 27:16 -
Here the "shortly" must he understood from the viewpoint of men. For it was what men were saying, not God. But the "shortly" in Revelation 1:1 is the Word of God, and so can be understood from His viewpoint, in which 1,000 years are like one day (2 Peter 3:8-9).
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*Jeremiah 29:10 / *Jer. 29:10 -
Here the seventy years could have already been fulfilled in ancient times. For they could be the same, already-fulfilled seventy years as Zechariah 7:5, 2 Chronicles 36:20-23, Zechariah 1:12, and Daniel 9:2.
(Compare Jeremiah 25:11 above)
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*Jeremiah 30:7 / *Jer. 30:7 -
(*Jacob's trouble)
The time of Jacob's trouble which he will be saved out of (Jeremiah 30:7) will not be the entire future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, but only the final pillaging of the Jews in Jerusalem at the very end of the Tribulation, right before Jesus Christ returns and saves them (Zechariah 14:2-5). The Church, including both Jews and Gentiles (Revelation 7:9,14), will be in the Tribulation. For Christians will be in the Tribulation (Revelation 13:7-10, Revelation 14:12-13, Revelation 20:4, Matthew 24:9-13). And there are no Christians outside of the Church (Ephesians 4:4-6).
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*Jeremiah 30:21 / *Jer. 30:21 -
"Their governor" could refer to "Nehemiah the governor" (Nehemiah 12:26) after the return of the Jews from their Babylonian captivity (Jeremiah 30:18) in 538 BC. It could also refer to Jesus Christ during the future Millennium (Zechariah 14:9-11), after the captivity which will occur right before His future, Second Coming (Zechariah 14:2-4).
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*Jeremiah 30:23 / *Jer. 30:23 -
See Jeremiah 23:19 above.
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*Jeremiah 31:1-7 / *Jer. 31:1 / *Jer. 31:7 -
Here the remnant of Israel is the very small remnant of genetic Israel which will become Christian (Isaiah 1:8-9, Romans 9:27-29). There is also a spiritual Israel which is different than genetic Israel (Romans 9:3-8). Spiritual Israel consists of all of the elect (Romans 9:11-13), both elect Jews and elect Gentiles (Romans 9:24).
(See also the "Nonelect Israelites" part of Romans 11:17 below. And see Romans 9:8 below)
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(Re: Revelation 17:18)
Jeremiah 31:7 can be an exhortation to the people in powerful ("chief") Gentile nations to sing, shout, and pray for the nation of Jacob/Israel, not that Jacob/Israel actually ruled over them, as the figurative Babylon of Revelation chapters 17-18 rules over them (Revelation 17:18).
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*Jeremiah 31:3 / *Jer. 31:3 -
God's love for the elect is not everlasting in the sense that after they become Christians they cannot ever lose their salvation, because they can (Hebrews 10:26-29, Hebrews 6:4-8, Matthew 25:26,30).
(See also Jude 1:21 below)
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*Jeremiah 31:8-9 / *Jer. 31:8 -
This can refer to the start of the future Millennium.
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*Jeremiah 31:22 / *Jer. 31:22 -
The original Hebrew words (cabab: H5437; and geber: H1397) translated as "compass a man" can mean "turn back a mighty man". For cabab is translated as "turn back" in Jeremiah 21:4. And geber is translated as "mighty" in Jeremiah 41:16. This is the same idea (although not the same instance) as 2 Kings 19:21, which refers to ancient Jerusalem (pictured as a woman) turning back the mighty man Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:20-21), by God's grace (2 Chronicles 32:22). Sennacherib was a king of ancient Assyria who had come to conquer Jerusalem.
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*Jeremiah 31:31-34 / *Jer. 31:31 -
(Re: Made only with Israel)
Jeremiah 31:31-33 does not have to say that the New Covenant is made "only" with Israel to mean that, just as it does not have to say that the Old Covenant Mosaic law was made "only" with Israel to mean that (Jeremiah 31:32). It is because the New Covenant is made only with Israel that salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22b), and the Gospel goes to the Jews first (Romans 1:16). It is also why Jesus Christ said Matthew 15:24,26 in the context of being asked to minister to someone who was not of Israel (Matthew 15:22-26). It is also why Gentile Christians have been grafted into Israel so that they can partake of the salvation offered to Israel (Romans 11:17,24, Ephesians 2:12,19, Galatians 3:29).
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(Re: Fulfilled)
The New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31-34 is already fulfilled, even though the prior, Millennial prophecy of Jeremiah 31:1-14,16-25 (Jeremiah 31:15 was fulfilled in the first century AD: Matthew 2:17-18) and the other Millennial prophecies have not yet been fulfilled. For the making of the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31,33) was fulfilled at Jesus Christ's Crucifixion (Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 9:15-17), just as the New Covenant being made with the houses of Israel and Judah (Jeremiah 31:31,33) has been fulfilled (Acts 2:5,36-41, Romans 11:1,17,24). And the New Covenant being not according to the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law (Jeremiah 31:32) has been fulfilled (Hebrews 7:18-19, Ephesians 2:15-16, Colossians 2:14-17). And the New Covenant law of Jesus being written on the hearts of Jewish and Gentile Christians (Jeremiah 31:33) has been fulfilled (Romans 6:17, Ephesians 6:6, Galatians 6:2). And "they shall teach no more every man his neighbour" (Jeremiah 31:34) has been fulfilled (1 John 2:27). And "they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them" (Jeremiah 31:34) has been fulfilled (1 John 2:13). And "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more" (Jeremiah 31:34) has been fulfilled (1 John 2:12).
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*Jeremiah 31:32 / *Jer. 31:32 -
This verse saying that God "was" Israel's husband is like a man saying to his daughter: "You left me even though I was your father". This does not contradict him still considering himself to be her father. For even if the father had legally disowned the daughter after she had left him while still a minor to go live with some other family that ended up legally adopting her, this does not contradict him still considering himself to be her biological father. For there is no breaking that connection. In the same way, even after God legally divorced Israel after she had abandoned him to worship other things, this does not contradict Him still considering Himself to be her husband (Jeremiah 3:14). For there is no breaking that connection entirely in God's eyes (Mark 10:8-12).
Also, Jeremiah 31:32 saying that God "was" Israel's husband does not contradict that God still wants Israel to return to Him (Jeremiah 3:14), just as it does not contradict that He has made the New Covenant with Israel (Jeremiah 31:31-37, Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:25). In the father/daughter analogy, it would be like the father sending letters to his estranged daughter asking her to come back to him, and him writing up a legal document which if she signed would make her legally his daughter again.
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*Jeremiah 31:34 / *Jer. 31:34 -
(I will remember their sin no more)
See Hebrews 10:17 below.
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*Jeremiah 32:37-44 / *Jer. 32:37 -
This can refer to the return of the Jews from their Babylonian captivity (Jeremiah 32:44c) in 538 BC, and also to the return of the Jews from their future captivity which will occur right before Jesus Christ's Second Coming (Zechariah 14:2-21).
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*Jeremiah 32:40 / *Jer. 32:40 -
This does not mean once-saved-always-saved. For the fear of God comes via His Spirit (Isaiah 11:2). And Christians can wrongly employ their free will to quench the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19), and to depart from God, to the ultimate loss of their salvation (Hebrews 6:4-8, John 15:6; 2 Timothy 2:12b).
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*Jeremiah 33:4 / *Jer. 33:4 -
The original Hebrew word (colelah: H5550) translated as "mounts" can mean besieging mounds or "banks" of dirt (2 Samuel 20:15).
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*Jeremiah 38:11 / *Jer. 38:11 -
Here the original Hebrew word (below': H1094) translated both times as "old" can mean "worn out". And the Hebrew word (cechabah: H5499) translated as "cast clouts" can mean "torn cloths". And the Hebrew word (malach: H4418) translated as "rotten rags" can mean "worn out clothes". These were meant to cushion the prophet Jeremiah's armpits while he was hoisted out of the death-pit by ropes (Jeremiah 38:12-13).
Also, note that Jeremiah is careful to say that the man who saved his life was an Ethiopian (Jeremiah 38:7-13). No one else cared to save him.
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*Jeremiah 42:15-19 / *Jer. 42:15 -
While at the time of the prophet Jeremiah, in the sixth century BC, the Israelites were not to enter Egypt (Jeremiah 42:15-19), at the prior time of Joseph, some 1,300 years earlier, it was okay for them to enter Egypt (Genesis 46:3-4), to stay alive during a famine (Genesis 45:7-13).
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(Re: God stripped us of years of provisions for the future Tribulation and told us to trust Him)
He could have done that because you were preparing too early (Ecclesiastes 3:1,6), and preparing out of a lack of trust in him (cf. Jeremiah 42:15-19). But at some point in our future, God could show you, like He showed Joseph, when it is the time to prepare (Genesis 41:35-36), and that it is possible to prepare while still trusting in Him (Matthew 24:45-46).
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(Re: Like with Elijah, God can send a raven to feed us) / (*Josephines)
Amen (1 Kings 17:4). And like with the Israelites, at the proper time, God can send a Joseph to feed us (Genesis 45:7-13). Or, He can show us that we need to be a Joseph for ourselves and others (cf. 1 Timothy 5:8, Matthew 24:45-46). There could be some future Josephs (and Josephines), Christians who will prepare different, fully-stocked hiding places in the wilderness to which some Christians will flee at the start of the future Antichrist's literal 3.5-year worldwide reign (Revelation 12:6,14, Revelation 13:5-18).
(See also Isaiah 26:19 above, and Revelation 12 below)
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*Jeremiah 46:10 / *Jer. 46:10 -
This referred to an ancient day of the Lord which occurred at the defeat of the armies of ancient Egypt, under Pharaoh Necho, by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Carchemish by the Euphrates (Jeremiah 46:2) in 605 BC.
Regarding the future day of the Lord...
(See 2 Thessalonians 2:2 below)
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*Jeremiah 46:27-28 / *Jer. 46:27 -
This can refer to the future, New Earth (Revelation 21:1-8), as in a new surface for the earth. For not even during the preceding, future Millennium (Revelation 20:4-6) will God "make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee" (Jeremiah 46:28). For they will continue to exist during the Millennium (Zechariah 14:16-19, Revelation 20:7-9).
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*Jeremiah 47:4 / *Jer. 47:4 -
"Caphtor" (H3731) could refer to Crete, an island of Greece.
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*Jeremiah 48:11 / *Jer. 48:11 -
The original Hebrew word (shemer: H8105) translated as "lees", like the English word, can refer to the dregs, the sediment, which has settled down to the bottom of a cask of aging wine. "Settling" on one's lees is figurative of becoming complacent (Zephaniah 1:12).
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*Jeremiah 48:19 / *Jer. 48:19 -
The original Hebrew word (tsaphah: H6822) translated as "espy" can mean to wait and watch (Lamentations 4:17). The English word means "to catch sight of" (Webster's).
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*Jeremiah 49:1-32 / *Jer. 49:1 -
This can refer to when the Babylonians (Jeremiah 49:28-30) conquered the western Middle East in the sixth century BC, and took many of the people there into captivity (e.g. Jeremiah 49:3b,6).
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*Jeremiah 49:7-22 / *Jer. 49:7 -
This could include reference to a destruction of ancient Edom, perhaps one that occurred sometime subsequent to the destruction of ancient Judah and other countries by the Babylonians in 586 BC, which happened in the time of the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 27:1-10).
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*Jeremiah 49:17-18 / *Jer. 49:17 / *Jer. 49:18 -
This can include the meaning that ancient Edom was uninhabited for awhile after its defeat (Malachi 1:3). That is, Jeremiah 49:18 does not require that the area would never become inhabited again. For even Sodom will become inhabited again during the future Millennium (Ezekiel 16:53-56).
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*Jeremiah 49:23-27 / *Jer. 49:23 -
See 2 Kings 16:9 above.
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*Jeremiah 49:35-37 / *Jer. 49:35 -
This could be fulfilled at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming. For Jeremiah 49:38 can refer to what the returned Jesus will do at one point during the subsequent Millennium.
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*Jeremiah 50:2 / *Jer. 50:2 -
The original Hebrew word (shama': H8085) translated as "publish" can mean just that, in the sense of making a proclamation (1 Kings 15:22), whether by speaking or writing.
The Hebrew word (nec: H5251) translated as "standard", like the English word, can literally mean a pole, flag, or banner (Numbers 21:8, Isaiah 13:2). But one which stands for something, as a rallying point (Webster's). And in English, this can include what we usually think of as a "standard", in the sense of something which has "permanent value" (Webster's).
So when Christians "set up a standard", it should be the permanent standard of God's own Word the Holy Bible (2 Timothy 3:15 to 4:4), which "political correctness" today only wants to tear down and trample, as "hate speech". For modern man thinks that he can make up his own standards, out of whole cloth, out of whatever his evil mind desires (Romans 1:24-32).
(See also section 2 of Numbers 12 above, and section 2 of Romans 1:26 below)
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*Jeremiah 50:17 / *Jer. 50:17 -
(The king of Assyria hath devoured him)
See Isaiah 52:4 above.
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*Jeremiah 50:21 / *Jer. 50:21 -
"Merathaim" (H4850) could be the dual form of "marah" (H4751), which can mean "bitterness" (1 Samuel 1:10). So "Merathaim" could mean: "Double Bitterness". This could refer figuratively to Babylon regarding a "double" punishment (Revelation 18:6), just as Jerusalem would receive its own "double" punishment (Jeremiah 16:18, Isaiah 40:2b).
"Pekod" (H6489) is derived from a word (paqad: H6485) which can mean "punishment", in this case with regard to Babylon (Jeremiah 50:18).
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*Jeremiah 50:36 / *Jer. 50:36 -
The original Hebrew word (ya'al: H2973) translated as "dote" can mean "slack", or "yield".
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*Jeremiah 50:39 / *Jer. 50:39 -
The original Hebrew word ('iy: H0338) translated as "wild beasts of the islands" is related to the word under Job 22:30 above.
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*Jeremiah 50:41 / *Jer. 50:41 -
The original Hebrew word (yerekah: H3411) translated as "from the coasts" of the earth can mean from the "borders" (Genesis 49:13) of the earth, in the sense of the ends (the farthest parts) of the earth.
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*Jeremiah 51:11,28 / *Jer. 51:11 -
Here the "Medes" are not the ancient Medes who conquered the ancient city of Babylon (Daniel 5:28,31). For the ancient Medes did not make Babylon uninhabited (Jeremiah 51:29,37,43), but kept it as a thriving city which continued on for centuries.
(See also Isaiah 13(space) above)
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*Jeremiah 51:25 / *Jer. 51:25 -
This refers to the empire of Babylon (Jeremiah 51:24) symbolically as a mountain, just as Revelation 17:9 refers to seven empires (Revelation 17:10) symbolically as seven mountains, and just as Daniel 2:35b refers to Jesus Christ's future, earthly empire (Daniel 2:44) symbolically as a mountain.
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*Jeremiah 51:42,55b / *Jer. 51:42 / *Jer. 51:55b -
Here the waters can be figurative of nations of peoples (Revelation 17:1,15).
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*Lamentations 1:1 / *Lam. 1:1 -
(Re: Revelation 17:18, Revelation 18:7)
Lamentations 1:1 says that "tributary" Jerusalem only "was" "great" "among" the nations, not that it reigns over the nations (Revelation 17:18). And Lamentations 1:1 referred back to when Jerusalem, before its destruction in 586 BC, was only a "princess" "among" "provinces", not a queen over the earth (Revelation 18:7, Revelation 17:18).
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*Lamentations 1:3 / *Lam. 1:3 -
The original Hebrew words (beyn: H0996; and metsar: H4712) translated as "between the straits" can mean "among the distresses". For beyn can mean "among" (Jeremiah 25:16), and metsar can mean "distresses" (Psalms 118:5).
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*Lamentations 2:1 / *Lam. 2:1 -
(A cloud)
See Isaiah 44:22 above.
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*Lamentations 2:2 / *Lam. 2:2 -
(Re: A mis-reference to a cloud)
See Lamentations 2:1 above.
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*Lamentations 3:31-33 / *Lam. 3:31 -
This means that God will not chasten Christians forever for their unrepentant sins (Lamentations 3:39,42, Revelation 3:19). But He will not do that only if they repent from those sins (Lamentations 3:40). For if they wrongly employ their free will to not repent, then they will ultimately lose their salvation (Hebrews 10:26-29; 1 Corinthians 9:27, Luke 12:45-46).
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*Lamentations 3:44 / *Lam. 3:44 -
(A cloud)
See Isaiah 44:22 above.
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*Lamentations 5:4 / *Lam. 5:4 -
This seems an odd thing to lament about. For we all do this today and see it as good. But the author of this lamentation, the prophet Jeremiah, was thinking from a more-exalted viewpoint where people own their own land with their own water sources and sources of wood. Jeremiah is lamenting the state in which people are wage slaves (Lamentations 5:5b), forced to work for others and to pay others for even their most basic necessities.
(See also Leviticus 25:10 above, and Micah 4:4 below)
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