As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.
Ver. 7. As a fountain casteth out her waters.] Incessantly and abundantly. In Ieremia est continua quasi declamatio contra peccatum, &c.
Before me continually.] This showeth their impudence.
Verse Jeremiah 6:7. _AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS_] The inhabitants are incessant in their acts of iniquity; they do nothing but sin....
AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT - Better, As a cistern “cooleth.” BEFORE ME ... - Before My face continually there is disease and wounding: Disease as the result of poverty and want: wounding, or, the comm...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
THE SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...
FOUNTAIN. Hebrew. _bor_. a well, bored or hewn out. Compare 2 Samuel 23:15; 2 Samuel 23:16; 1 Chronicles 11:17. See note on...
The Scythians would not make their approaches to the city in this fashion, while the absence of metre makes us hesitate to take the passage as inserted by the prophet in Jehoiakim's time, when the Cha...
The cherished wickedness of the people is illustrated by a metaphor. _a well casteth forth_ MT. has two readings, _well_and _fountain_. In the former water is stored to keep it fresh, in the latter it...
_2. The siege of Jerusalem_ (Jeremiah 6:6-8) TRANSLATION (6) For thus says the LORD of hosts: Cut her trees and pour out against Jerusalem a mound! This is the city to be punished; everywhere there i...
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. FOUNTAIN - rather, a well dug, from which wa...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
GRIEF] RV 'sickness.' 9-21. Retribution awaiting the guilty people....
AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS. — The English is plain enough, but the Hebrew presents two difficulties: (1) The word rendered “fountain” (better, _cistern_) is not spelt with the usual vowels,...
כְּ הָקִ֥יר _בַּ֨יִר֙_† מֵימֶ֔יהָ כֵּ֖ן הֵקֵ֣רָה רָעָתָ֑הּ
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
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: (g) violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually [are] grief and wounds. (g) He shows the reason why it wou...
_Cold. Hebrew, "come forth." All the citizens imitate her vices._...
I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
The Prophet enlarges on what he had said in the last verse; for he had shewn, by mentioning one kind of evil, that Jerusalem was a den of thieves, as oppression dwelt in the midst of it. But he now, b...
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...
AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS,.... In great abundance, and continually: SO SHE CASTETH OUT HER WICKEDNESS; this metaphor expresses the multitude of her sins, the frequent and constant commissi...
_For thus hath the Lord of hosts said_ To the Chaldeans: God would have the Jews to know, that they have not so much to do with the Chaldeans as with him; that they are his rod to scourge them for the...
THE ADVICE TO FLEE FROM JERUSALEM...
As a fountain casteth out her waters, a well causing its water to flow in a steady and uninterrupted quantity, SO SHE CASTETH OUT HER WICKEDNESS, which springs forth in a steady stream; VIOLENCE AND S...
1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean a...
In this verse God aggravates their sin of oppression, mentioned in the former. AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS, SO SHE CASTETH OUT HER WICKEDNESS; a metaphor, to express how natural all manner of...
Jeremiah 6:7 fountain H953 up H6979 (H8687) water H4325 up H6979 (H8689) wickedness H7451 Violence H2555 plundering...
IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...
HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 6:1). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem,...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...
Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...
_Arise, and let us go up at noon._ CHRISTIAN EFFORT That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our pilgrimage to...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:7 Jerusalem should repent of EVIL (harmful acts; see Jeremiah 4:14), but instead she keeps her evil as FRESH a
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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...
Ezekiel 22:3; Ezekiel 24:7; Ezekiel 7:11; Ezekiel 7:23; Isaiah 57:20