Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Jeremiah 13

^{1 !} The destruction of the Jewes is prefigured.

^{4 a} Because this riuer Periath or Euphrates was farre from Jerusalem, it is eiudent, that this was a vision, whereby was signified that the Jewes shulde passe ouer Euphrates to be captiues, in Babylon & therefor length of time shulde seme to be rotten: althogh they were joyned to the Lord before as a girdle about a man.

^{11 !} Why Israel was receiued to be the people of God, and why they were forsaken.

^{12 b} Euerie one of you shalbe filled with spiritual drunkenes, and be without all knowledge to seke how to helpe your selues.

^{14 c} It shalbe as easie for me to destroye the greatest and the strongest, as it is for a man to break earthen bottels.

^{15 !} He exhorteth them to repentance.

^{16 d} That is, affliction & miserie by the Babylonians, {Isa. 8, 22}

^{16 e} Meaning, for helpe and support of the Egyptians

^{17 f} You shal surely be led away captiue & I, acording to mine affection toward you, shal wepe, and lament for your stubbernes.

^{18 g} For Jehoiachin, & his mother rendred them selues by Jeremiahs counsel to the King of Babylon, {2 King. 24, 12}.

^{19 h} That is, of Judah which lieth Southward from Babylon.

^{20 i} He asketh the King, where his people is become.

^{21 k} By seking to strangers for helpe thou hast made them skilful to fight against thee.

^{22 l} Thy cloke of hypocrisie shal be pulled of and thy shame sene.

^{26 m} As thine iniquities haue bene manifest to all the worlde: so shal thy shame, & punishment.

^{27 n} He compareth idolaters to horses inflamed after mares.

^{27 o} There is no place so hie nor lo, where as the markes and signes of thine idolatrie appeare not.