Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 5:13
Became wind — A proverbial expression, all the prophet's threats shall come to nothing. The word — The prophet's words are not from God. Thus — It shall fall upon their own heads that have thus threatened us.
Became wind — A proverbial expression, all the prophet's threats shall come to nothing. The word — The prophet's words are not from God. Thus — It shall fall upon their own heads that have thus threatened us.
Verse Jeremiah 5:13. _AND THE PROPHETS SHALL BECOME WIND_] What are the prophets? Empty persons. Their words are wind; we hear the _sound_ of their threatenings, but of the matter of the threatenings...
WORD - Rather, speaker. Literally, And he who speaketh is not in them, i. e., there is no one who speaketh in them; what the prophets say has no higher authority than themselves. THUS ... - i. e., Ma...
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...
PROPHETS: i.e. Jeremiah, and others with him. See one in Ch. Jeremiah 26:20. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
See summary at beginning of section....
_and the prophets shall become wind_ the rejoinder continued. As the word is generally used in Jeremiah of the false prophets, Gi. takes it in that sense here, but he is obliged for that purpose to tr...
AND THE PROPHETS SHALL BECOME WIND— These are the words of the wicked. _"The prophets,"_ say they, _"shall become wind;"_ all their prophesies are vain and to no purpose. _"The word_ [that is to say,...
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...
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. AND THE PROPHETS SHALL BECOME WIND - continuation of the unbelieving language of the Jews. AND THE...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
THE PROPHETS, etc.] These are still the words of the scoffing Jews....
THE WORD. — Literally, _He who speaketh, i.e.,_ Jehovah, as the speaker. THUS SHALL IT BE DONE UNTO THEM. — Better, as a wish, _may it so happen to them;_ may the evils the prophets foretell fall on...
וְ הַ נְּבִיאִים֙ יִֽהְי֣וּ לְ ר֔וּחַ וְ
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...
And the prophets shall become (l) wind, and the word [is] (m) not in them: thus shall it be done to them. (l) Their words will be of no effect, but vain. (m) They are not sent from the Lord, and the...
_Them. The evil shall fall on the head of these impostors. So the wicked deride the prophets (Calmet) impugning the known truth. (Haydock)_...
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 Prophet goes on with the same subject; and this passage is worthy of especial notice, as it commends to us in no common way the public preaching of the truth. For what can be imagined more abomina...
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...
AND THE PROPHETS SHALL BECOME WIND,.... Their prophecies shall vanish into air; they shall become of no effect; they shall never be accomplished: AND THE WORD IS NOT IN THEM; not the word of the Lord...
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. Ver. 13. _And the prophets shall become wind._] All their threats and bugbear terms (devised on pur...
_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...
and the prophets shall become wind, their warnings, in the estimation of the scoffers, being nothing but idle threats, AND THE WORD IS NOT IN THEM, the unbelieving rebels declaring that God did not sp...
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...
SHALL BECOME WIND; a proverbial speech, very frequent, not in common language only, but Scripture also, JOB 6:26 ECCLESIASTES 5:16, and elsewhere; i.e. all the prophet's threats shall come to nothing:...
Jeremiah 5:13 prophets H5030 wind H7307 word H1696 (H8763) done H6213 (H8735) the prophets -...
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...
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...
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 9:7; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 14:15; Jeremiah 18:18; Jere