Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. Jump to: Barnes • Benson • BI • Calvin • Cambridge • Clarke • Darby • Ellicott • Expositor's • Exp Dct • Gaebelein • GSB • Gill • Gray • Guzik • Haydock • Hastings • Homiletics • JFB • KD • Kelly • King • Lange • MacLaren • MHC • MHCW • Parker • Poole • Pulpit • Sermon • SCO • TTB • WES • TSK EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) (37) From him.—Better, from it, sc., from Egypt as a people.Thine hands upon thine head.—The outward sign of depression and despair (2Samuel 13:19). Thy confidences.—i.e., the grounds or objects of thy confidence. Jeremiah 2:37. Yea, thou shalt go forth from him — The ambassadors thou sendest to Egypt shall return with disappointment and confusion; and their hands on their heads — Condoling the desperate condition of their people. Or, Thou shalt go forth from hence, namely, into captivity, in a strange land. And thy hands upon thy head — As Tamar went forth from her brother Amnon, her garments torn, and her hands upon her head, insulted and despised, and in the greatest grief and misery; and Egypt, on which thou reliedst, shall not be able to prevent it, or to rescue thee out of captivity. For the Lord hath rejected thy confidences — Hath refused to give success to them, or hath rejected thee for thy confidences; or he disapproves thy confidences, namely, all thy dependances and refuges, which thou seekest out of him. And thou shalt not prosper in them — They shall not stand thee in any stead, nor give thee any satisfaction. As there is no counsel or wisdom that can prevail against the Lord, so there is none that can prevail without the Lord. Some read it, The Lord hath rejected thee for thy confidences; that is, because thou hast dealt so unfaithfully with him as to trust in his creatures, nay, in his enemies, when thou shouldest have trusted in him only, he has abandoned thee to that destruction from which thou thoughtest thus to have sheltered thyself; and then thou canst not prosper, for none ever either hardened himself against God, or estranged himself from God, and prospered. Confidences - Those in whom thou confidest. In them - literally, "with respect to them." hands upon … head—expressive of mourning (2Sa 13:19). in them—in those stays in which thou trustest. (z) In sign of lamentation, as in 2Sa 13:19. EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES) 37. From him also shalt thou go forth] The king of Egypt shall repulse thy advances, and thou shalt return mourning.thine hands upon thine head] in disgrace and disappointment; cp. 2 Samuel 13:19. thy confidences] those in whom thou confidest, Egypt and Assyria. Verse 37. - From him; i.e. from Egypt, personified as a man (so whenever a people is referred to; a laud is represented as a woman). Egypt was, in fact, the only great power capable of assisting Judah at this time (see Introduction); yet even Egypt, the prophet says, shall disappoint her Jewish allies, for Jehovah has rejected thy confidences (i.e. the objects of thy confidence). As a matter of fact, "the King of Egypt came not again any more out of his laud" after Necho's crushing defeat at Carehemish (2 Kings 24:7; comp. Jeremiah 37:5). Jeremiah 2:37Also from this, i.e., Egypt, shalt thou go away (come back), thy hands upon thy head, i.e., beating them on thy head in grief and dismay (cf. for this gesture 2 Samuel 13:19). זה refers to Egypt, thought of as a people as in Jeremiah 46:8; Isaiah 19:16, Isaiah 19:25; and thus is removed Hitz.'s objection, that in that case we must have מבטחים .זאת, objects of confidence. The expression refers equally to Egypt and to Assyria. As God has broken the power of Assyria, so will He also overthrow Egypt's might, thus making all trust in it a shame. להם, in reference to them. Links Jeremiah 2:37 InterlinearJeremiah 2:37 Parallel Texts Jeremiah 2:37 NIV Jeremiah 2:37 NLT Jeremiah 2:37 ESV Jeremiah 2:37 NASB Jeremiah 2:37 KJV Jeremiah 2:37 Bible Apps Jeremiah 2:37 Parallel Jeremiah 2:37 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 2:37 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 2:37 French Bible Jeremiah 2:37 German Bible Bible Hub |