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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 ...
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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...
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THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4.
THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. See note on Jeremiah 2:4....
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See summary at beginning of section....
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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...
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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
(.)...
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1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
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כִּי֩ בָגֹ֨וד בָּגְד֜וּ בִּ֗י בֵּ֧ית
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 5:11 house H1004 Israel H3478 house H1004 Judah H3063 very
H898 (H8800) treacherously H898 (H8804) says...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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Hosea 5:7; Hosea 6:7; Isaiah 48:8; Jeremiah 3:20; Jeremiah 3:6...