The Pulpit Commentary — Jeremiah — Volume 1 — Section 335

the Authorizod Version undoubtedly re- 1 safer to render, the portion of thy garment, quires correction. The alternatives are, the upper garment being used instead of a TVhat un'lt thou say when he shall appoint bag to hold anything (comp. Ruth iii. 15; over thee (but t11ou thyself hast trained 2 Kings iv. 39). In falsehood; i.e. in falso them against thee) familiar friends as thy gods (eh. xvi. 19). head f and, What wilt thou say when he shall Ver. 26.-Therefore will I, etc. But the appoint over thee tl1oae whom thou hast taught Hebrew is much more forcible, "And I to be thy familiar friends as thy head f The also," etc., implying, as Calvin remarks rendering "familiar friends" is justified by ( comp. Prov. i. 26), a. certain retaliation. Pa. Iv. 13; Prov ..xvi. 28 ; xvii. 9; Micah vii. Upon thy face; an allusion to Nab. iii. 5. 5. The "captains" of Authorized Version, Ver. 27.-1 have seen, etc. The Hebrew or rather •~ tribal chiefs," is unsuitable. is age.in more forcible than the En~lisb. It Ver. 22.-Thy heels made bare; rather, runs,'' Thine adulteries and thy neighings," treated with 'lliolence. The fate held out to etc. I (this is an exclamation as it were; then the daughter of Zion (tmined to walk a.bout more reflectively)," I have Eeen thine abomi- with "tinkling ornaments," Isa. ii. 18) is to nations." Neighings; i.e. passionate craving plod wearily along with bare feet (comp. Isa. for illegitimate objects of wor,hip (comp. eh. xlvii. 1). ii 24, 25; v. 8). In the fields. The Hebrew Ver. 24.-As the stubble. "The word has the singular. The "fielu," a.a usual, means not what we call stnbble, but the means the open country. Wilt thou not, broken straw which had to be separated etc.? rather, How long yet ere thou be made from the wheat after the corn ,had been clean 1 In ver. 23 the prophet had vehemently trampled. OJJ.t by the oxen. Sometimes it declared his people to be incorrigible. Bnt, was burnt ns useless; at other times left to liko the tender Hosea, he c0.Illlot continue be blown away by the wind coming from to hold such gloomy thoughts; surely Israel, the desert, on which see oh. iv. 11; Job i. God's people, must eventually be "made 19" (Payne Smith). clean" I But this can only be as the result Ver. 25.-The portion of thy measures; i:e. of judicial affliction, a.nd these afflictions thy measured portion. But it is probably will be no slight or transient ones.