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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
UYeremiya 4:24
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
mountains: Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 10:10, Judges 5:4, Judges 5:5, 1 Kings 19:11, Psalms 18:7, Psalms 77:18, Psalms 97:4, Psalms 114:4-7, Isaiah 5:25, Ezekiel 38:20, Micah 1:4, Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:6, Habakkuk 3:6, Habakkuk 3:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 19:18 - whole Job 9:6 - the pillars Job 14:18 - the mountain Psalms 46:3 - mountains Psalms 60:2 - made Psalms 99:1 - earth Isaiah 13:13 - the earth Isaiah 34:4 - all the Isaiah 42:15 - General Amos 8:8 - the land
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,.... At the presence of God, at the tokens of his displeasure, and at his awful vengeance in the destruction of the Jews, as they are sometimes said to do, Psalms 68:8:
and all the hills moved lightly; so Kimchi's father says the word used has the signification of lightness; though Jarchi, from Menachem, explains it, they were plucked up, and thrown out of their place; and some render it, were pulled down and destroyed, so the Targum. Mountains and hills are most stable, and not easily moved, wherefore this is said, to aggravate the desolation and destruction.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity.
Jeremiah 4:23
Without form, and void - Desolate and void (see Genesis 1:2 note). The land has returned to a state of chaos (marginal reference note).
And the heavens - And upward to the heavens. The imagery is that of the last day of judgment. To Jeremiah’s vision all was as though the day of the Lord had come, and earth returned to the state in which it was before the first creative word (see 2 Peter 3:10).
Jeremiah 4:24
Moved lightly - “Reeled to and fro,” from the violence of the earthquake.
Jeremiah 4:26
The fruitful place - The Carmel Jeremiah 2:7, where the population had been most dense, and the labors of the farmer most richly rewarded, has become the wilderness.
At the presence - i. e., because of, at the command of Yahweh, and because of His anger.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 4:24. The mountains - hills — Princes, rulers, &c., were astonished and fled.