CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _ 2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10) 3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19) 4. The horrible thing ...
THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4. THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. See note on Jeremiah 2:4....
See summary at beginning of section....
3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18) TRANSLATION (10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For the house...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
כִּי֩ בָגֹ֨וד בָּגְד֜וּ בִּ֗י בֵּ֧ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל...
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
Mark Reader, I pray you, in those days as now, how the Lord mingles compassion with punishment. Destroy, saith the Lord: but make not a full end. There is a blessing in it. Isaiah 65:8. Oh! how sweet...
The verb בגד, _begad, _means to deceive, to act perfidiously. God then charges the Jews here with perfidy, because they had revolted from him: for he does not only complain that they had in some measu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH HAVE DEALT VERY TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST ME,.... This is a reason why such orders are given to the army of the Chaldeans to ascend the walls of Jerusalem an...
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. Ver. 11. _For the house of Israel and the house of Judah._] Both Aholah and Aholibah are stark...
_Go ye up upon her walls_, &c. Ye Babylonians, go, execute my vengeance on them; _and destroy_ I commission you not only to take the city, but to make havoc of its inhabitants. _But make not a full en...
FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah, the entire nation of God's chosen people, HAVE DEALT VERY TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST ME, SAITH THE LORD, their faithlessness being the Lord's chief reason fo...
10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
Whether ISRAEL be put here for the ten tribes, and JUDAH for the two, as often they are, JEREMIAH 2:4, and sundry other places; or rather, whether Judah here be only explicative, and the word meant of...
Jeremiah 5:11 house H1004 Israel H3478 house H1004 Judah H3063 very H898 (H8800) treacherously H898 (H8804) says...
YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH 5:1). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
YHWH CALLS ON HIS CHAMPION, WHOSE GREAT MIGHT HE MAKES CLEAR, IN ORDER THAT HIS FORCES MIGHT DENUDE JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR TREACHERY TOWARDS HIM (JEREMIAH 5:10). The instrument of YHWH's judgment is c...
Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very tre...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against them and the judgments threatened. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his perf...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
Hosea 5:7; Hosea 6:7; Isaiah 48:8; Jeremiah 3:20; Jeremiah 3:6...