13. Ted’s Response: It seems that most people who study the Bible look for historical events that have taken place, or are taking place, and attempt to attach certain passages in the Bible (especially from the ancient prophets) to those events. Cf. Be astonished. 32 1 “Astonished”—in the old sense, “thunder-stricken,” stupefied. Jeremiah 2:12, ESV: "Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD," Jeremiah 2:12, KJV: "Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD." In contrast with these distant western lands, Kedar is mentioned as representative of the races of the east. What Does Ephesians 2:12 Mean? Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. Here is one example to show what I mean. The heavens are shocked at such a thing and shrink back in horror and dismay,” says the LORD. As to the words, some render them, “Be desolate, ye heavens,” and then repeat the same: but as שמם sh em em, means to be astonished, the rendering I have given suits the present passage better, “Be astonished, ye heavens, for this,” and then, “be ye terrified and dried up;” for: חרב ch ar eb, signifies to become dry, and sometimes, to be reduced to a solitude or a waste. A poetic and pathetic expression. The delineation keeps to the same figure. Has any heathen nation changed its gods, which indeed are not truly gods? Man, created by God and for God, cannot live without God. Some argue for a ninth century date, while others suggest a Persian period (500- 350 BCE). This passage is repeated almost verbatim in Hebrews 8:8-12.Jeremiah lived in the sixth and seventh centuries before Christ, some six hundred years before the New Covenant became a reality. If he forsakes the living God, he passes in spite of himself into the service of dead, unreal gods." Be astonished,’ be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, Prayer of Manasseh, created by God and for God, cannot live without God. Jeremiah 3:24; Jeremiah 11:13; but Jeremiah chose לאto represent the exchange as not advantageous. Israel Forsakes God. There are two patches in Joel’s prophetic quilt. Compare Deuteronomy 32:1, Isaiah 1:2. The inability to date … Continue reading "Commentary on Joel 2:12-13, 28-29" Contrary to those two good things that I have commanded them, viz., "Depart from evil, and do good." (s) He shows that the insensible creatures abhor this vile ingratitude, and as it were tremble for fear of God's great judgments against the same. Yahweh called the heavens as witnesses to Israel"s folly (cf. Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2; Micah 6:1; et al.). 12. Jeremiah 2:12 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Jeremiah 2:12, NIV: "Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,' declares the LORD." Chapter 34). In horror at Israel's conduct the heavens shrivel and dry up. The original will admit either sense. Israel Forsakes God - The word of the LORD came to me: “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown. But that does not mean that we are left to ourselves to meet the conditions or that our action is first and decisive. But these leaders have destroyed their flocks rather … No it doesn’t mean that. This is said to aggravate the wickedness committed, as if the heavens blushed and were ashamed, and were confounded and amazed at it; and as if, on account of it, the Jews deserved not the benefit of the heavens, and the orbs in them. Rahab makes a similar plea to the spies she hid in Joshua 2:12–13. The conception of this moral unity is at the foundation of the threatening. Be horribly afraid.] This he does with the view of bringing out the distinction, wide as heaven, between the true God and the false gods, to the shaming of the idolatrous people; and in order, at the same time, to scourge the folly of idolatry by giving prominence to the contrast between the glory of God and the nothingness of the idols. The heavens are addressed as that part of the creation where the glory of God is most brightly reflected. For my people have committed two evils —, they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Israel has committed two crimes: a. — Ed. 1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the Lord says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me. "For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, … saith the LORD." For my people have committed two evils; [first] they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters (Jer 2:12-13), So many times water is used as a symbol of life because water is so essential for life. The alteration in the last verb, in accordance with the Syriac, חרדו, which means to “tremble,” instead of חרבו, though proposed by Secker and approved by Horsley, is by no means necessary, and countenanced by no MSS. The Kedarenes lived as a pastoral people in the eastern part of the desert between Arabia Petraea and Babylonia; see in Genesis 25:13 and Ezekiel 27:21. Jeremiah 2:12. Hence now the Prophet bids the heavens to be astonished and to be terrified and to be reduced as it were unto desolation; as though he had said, “This is a wonder, which almost confounds the whole order of nature; it is the same as though we were to see heaven and earth mixed together.” We now then perceive the meaning of the Prophet: for by this representation he intended to shew, how detestable was the impiety of the people, since the heavens, though destitute of reason, ought justly to dread such a monstrous thing. I greet you all in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). Desolate - Or, “be dry.” In horror at Israel‘s conduct the heavens shrivel and dry up. If he forsakes the living God, he passes in spite of himself into the service of dead, unreal gods. He calls upon the “heavens” to “be astonished” at the fearfulness of this crime. Learned men are sometimes led too much by an innovating spirit. Jeremiah 2:13 - Sapagka't ang bayan ko ay nagkamit ng dalawang kasamaan; kanilang iniwan ako na bukal ng buhay na tubig, at nagsigawa sa ganang kanila ng mga balon na mga sirang balon na hindi malalamnan ng tubig. The prophet sets the two moments of the apostasy from God side by side, so as to depict to the people with greater fulness of light the enormity of their crime. 12.Be astonished, O ye heavens — Still further to suggest that which is essentially unspeakable, the prophet employs an apostrophe. and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord; all which may be signified by storms and tempests, by thunder and lightning, and by the sun's withdrawing its light. (12) Be astonished, O ye heavens.—The adjuration had been made familiar by a like utterance in Isaiah 1:2; Deut. The context surrounding this verse is important. remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of … This is the key. 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