Jeremiah 1

Jeremiah 1:1

ANathoth] one of the Cities assigned to the Priests, Joshua 21:18. 1 Chronicles 6:60.

Jeremiah 1:3

In the fifth] of the present yeere.

Jeremiah 1:5

I knew thee] that is to say, I did by a degree of my Soveraigne pleasure choose and appoint thee to take upon thee the sacred Office of Prophet, see Exod.3. 12, 17.

Jeremiah 1:7

Thou shalt goe] doe thou obey me without any contradiction, for I will give thee strength, and all needfull meanes to fulfill my commands To all that I shall] the Italian,Whithersoever I shall; or to doe all those things, which I shall send thee to doe.

Jeremiah 1:9

Put forth] namely, in a vision, for a token of inspiration and confirmation, see Isaiah 6:6-7.

Jeremiah 1:10

Over the Nation] to declare my word publikely, with a prophetical authority, to the ruin, and perdition of the wicked and rebellious, and for the salvation of the faithfull and penitent, which shall be accomplished and fulfilled from point to point, as if thou thy self didst put it in execution.

Jeremiah 1:11

What seest thou] namely, in propheticke vision Of an Almond tree] the name of this Tree in the Hebrew tongue is taken from a word which signifieth watching, or being attentive upon some businesse. For the Almond tree blossomes sooner in the spring then any other Tree, and upon this signification is this vision founded, see Amos 8. 1. 2.

Jeremiah 1:13

A seething pot] a figure of Jerusalem, and Judea, as Ezek. 11. 3, 7. & 24 3. in which God would seeth, destroy and consume the Jewes, by the fire of the Chaldeans which were Northward from Judea.

Jeremiah 1:15

They shall set] that is to say, they shall encampe themselves with their royall tents, which shall be like so many thrones, in which I will sit and condemne my people, to such punishment as the Chaldeans shal execute upon them, see Jerem. 52, 4, 5.

Jeremiah 1:17

Gird up] prepare thy selfe to doe thine Osice freely.

Jeremiah 1:18

A defenced City] invincible to withstand all their contradictions and persecutions.