George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 7:27
Thee. Septuagint omit this verse, which Grabe replaces. The people will be more inexcusable. (Haydock)
Thee. Septuagint omit this verse, which Grabe replaces. The people will be more inexcusable. (Haydock)
Rather, Though thou ... yet etc....
THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9) CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _ 2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16) 3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
OBEDIENCE NECESSARY, NOT SACRIFICE. Yahweh scornfully tells these formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the worsh...
See introd. note on the section....
For _And thou shalt speak … say unto them_, LXX has only _And thou shalt say unto them this word_, pointing to a probable amplification on the part of MT....
B. Persistent Obstinacy Jeremiah 7:24-28 TRANSLATION (24) But they would not hearken and they did not stretch out the ear but walked in the counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and th...
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. THEREFORE - rather, 'Though thou speak ... ye...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
THEREFORE... ALSO. — Better, in both cases, _though thou shalt speak, yet they will not hearken; though thou shalt call unto them, yet they will not answer thee. _...
וְ דִבַּרְתָּ֤ אֲלֵיהֶם֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־הַ דְּבָר
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but they (n) will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them; but they will not answer thee. (n) By which he shows that the pastors should n...
I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses, they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers o...
Here is seen more clearly what I have stated, — that the Jews were not addressed, because they had no ears. Here then God addresses his Prophet and says, “The children will be like their parents: for...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
THEREFORE THOU SHALT SPEAK ALL THESE WORDS UNTO THEM,.... Before mentioned in the chapter; exhortations to duty, dehortations from sin, promises and threatenings: BUT THEY WILL NOT HEARKEN TO THEE: s...
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. Ver. 27. _But they will not hearken unto thee._...
_Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ And let Israel hear when their God speaks _Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh_ The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
Therefore thou shall speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to thee, Jeremiah would have as little success as the other prophets had had; THOU SHALL ALSO CALL UNTO THEM, BUT THEY W...
21-28 God shows that obedience was required of them. That which God commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God. The promise is very encouraging. Let God's will be your rule, an...
THEREFORE THOU SHALT SPEAK ALL THESE WORDS UNTO THEM, viz. revive upon them all that thou hast been speaking to them from me these forty years and upwards. Whereby God shows that there is nothing want...
Jeremiah 7:27 speak H1696 (H8765) words H1697 obey H8085 (H8799) call H7121 (H8804) answer H6030 ...
YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...
CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming desolations because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast themselves...
Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
_They will not hearken to thee._ GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE SINNER’S REFUSAL OF HIS WORD I. Instances illustrative of the text. 1. The original transgression of first parents. 2. The old world. 3...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_ regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in r...
Acts 20:27; Ezekiel 2:4; Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 3:18; Ezekiel 3:4;...