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Verse Jeremiah 4:4. _CIRCUMCISE YOURSELVES_] Put away every thing that
has a tendency to grieve the Spirit of God, or to render your present
holy resolutions unfruitful....
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See the Deuteronomy 10:16 note. Nature, such as it is in itself,
unconsecrated to God, is to be removed from our inner selves, that a
new and spiritual nature may take its place.
LEST MY FURY ... - Go...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _
2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5)
3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14)
4. The desolation of I
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JEREMIAH 3:19 TO JEREMIAH 4:4. A DIALOGUE OF YAHWEH'S GRACE. This
directly continues Jeremiah 3:5, the I of Jeremiah 3:19 being
emphatically contras
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CIRCUMCISE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy
30:6). Spiritual circumcision in the O.T. is confined to these three
passages....
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_Circumcise yourselves to the Lord_ Literal circumcision was the
condition of admission to the external covenant. "Jeremiah demands an
inward circumcision, a cleansing and dedication of the heart. Suc...
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Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration
We may subdivide thus.
(1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are
invited to repent and return. (2)...
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Jeremiah 4:1. If Israel will sincerely repent and mend her ways, her
prosperity will be the ideal for all nations. Let Judah dedicate
herself in heart to Jehovah, otherwise heavy judgement shall be he...
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DISCOURSE: 1036
REPENTANCE THE MEANS OF PREVENTING RUIN
Jeremiah 4:3. Thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Circumcise
yourselve...
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CIRCUMCISE YOURSELVES— Circumcision, as well as baptism, had a moral
import, and denoted the obligation of putting away all sinful lusts of
the flesh, every irregular and inordinate affection and appe...
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F. The Rewards of Repentance Jeremiah 4:1-4
TRANSLATION
(1) If you return, O Israel, (oracle of the LORD) unto Me return; and
if you will remove your abominations from before Me, and never waver
(2)...
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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of
your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury
come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, becaus...
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JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO
JUDAH
In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the
figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
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THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE
INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF
THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6)
This section furnishes us with the g...
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CIRCUMCISE] Circumcision was a dedication of self to God's service,
and a removal of imperfections....
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CIRCUMCISE YOURSELVES TO THE LORD. — The words show that the prophet
had grasped the meaning of the symbol which to so many Jews was merely
an outward sign. He saw that the “foreskin of the heart” was...
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הִמֹּ֣לוּ לַ יהֹוָ֗ה וְ הָסִ֨רוּ֙
עָרְלֹ֣ות ל
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CHAPTER III
ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST
Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1
THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and
the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray...
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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
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Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be
established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined
on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
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_Hearts. Understand, and act with purity. (Haydock)_...
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The Prophet here opens his commission to the men of Judah and
Jerusalem; and in the prospect of the Babylonish captivity, now
hastening, admonisheth them to seek the Lord. The Prophet, like a
faithful...
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The Prophet expresses here more clearly what he had before said
metaphorically or by a figure; for he had bidden them to eradicate
their vices, according to what is usually done by breaking up the
fal...
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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...
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CIRCUMCISE YOURSELVES TO THE LORD,.... Or, "be ye circumcised", as the
Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it. This is to be
understood of the circumcision of the heart, as Kimchi observes; a...
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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your
heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come
forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], becau...
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_For thus saith the Lord_ The prophet now addresses himself to the
inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, and exhorts them to repentance and
reformation in metaphorical language. _Break up your fallow gr...
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3,4 An unhumbled heart is like ground untilled. It is ground which may
be improved; it is our ground let out to us; but it is fallow; it is
over-grown with thorns and weeds, the natural product of the...
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CIRCUMCISE YOURSELVES; put away your natural corruptions; which was
signified by the sacrament of circumcision, COLOSSIANS 2:11; see 1
PETER 3:21; the same thing with the other, but expressed in other...
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Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise H4135 (H8734) LORD H3068 away H5493 (H8685)
foreskins H6190 hearts H3824 men H376 Judah...
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JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN
THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY
CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....
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YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY
A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF
THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3).
If Judah will not respond to th...
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Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return
unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight,
then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the
consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
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Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir,
novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old
phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
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_If thou wilt return,.. .and if thou wilt put away thine abominations.
.. then shalt thou not remove._
THE PLEADINGS OF GOD
A strange ministry is that of Almightiness. It is
almightiness--almost. So...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 4:4 Changing the image, God tells the
people of Judah to CIRCUMCISE themselves TO THE LORD by removing the
FORESKIN OF their...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter,
_Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in
chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced
cities_....
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2
The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render,
_If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto
me_;_ and if thou wilt...
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But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and
if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will
no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
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Amos 5:6; Colossians 2:11; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6;...
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Circumcise — Put away your corruptions. Heart — Let it be inward,
not outward in the flesh only....