Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 5:15
Israel — By these are meant Judah; for Israel were in captivity before: called the house of Israel, not only because they descended from Jacob, but because they were the chief of that stock.
Israel — By these are meant Judah; for Israel were in captivity before: called the house of Israel, not only because they descended from Jacob, but because they were the chief of that stock.
Verse Jeremiah 5:15. _I WILL BRING A NATION_] The _Scythians_, says _Dahler_; the _Babylonians_, whose antiquity was great, that empire being founded by Nimrod. _WHOSE LANGUAGE THOU KNOWEST NOT_] Th...
Israel is not put here for the ten tribes, but for the whole house of Jacob, of which Judah was now the representative. MIGHTY - “permanent, enduring.” The word is the usual epithet of the rocks Numbe...
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...
I WILL BRING. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49). App-92. A NATION: i.e. the Chaldeans, but not yet named as such. ANCIENT. Compare Genesis 10:10. UNDERSTANDEST. hearest. Put by Figure of s...
See summary at beginning of section....
Although the description suits the Babylonians (cp. Isaiah 5:26 of the Assyrians; also Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 33:19), we need not suppose that it is altered in phraseology from its original application...
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...
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what th...
5:15 understandest (i-33) Lit. 'hearest.'...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
A NATION] the Assyrian....
O HOUSE OF ISRAEL. — Apparently, as there is no contrast with Judah, in its wider sense, as including the whole body of the twelve tribes. A MIGHTY NATION. — The strict force of the adjective is that...
הִנְנִ֣י מֵבִיא֩ עֲלֵיכֶ֨ם גֹּ֧וי מִ מֶּרְחָ֛ק...
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...
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you (o) from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest...
_Ancient. Nemrod founded the empire of Ninive and of Babylon, Genesis x. 10. Nabopolassar had succeeded to the ancient Assyrian and Chaldean sovereigns. Under his son, Nabuchodonosor, the dominions we...
Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, I will sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, be dedicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and glo...
The Prophet shews here how the people would become like straw or dry wood; for God would bring a sure calamity which they did not fear. But the context is to be here observed: the Prophet had said, th...
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...
LO, I WILL BRING A NATION UPON YOU FROM FAR,.... From Babylon, as in Jeremiah 4:16: O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD; though the house of Israel is generally taken for the ten tribes, especially whe...
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what...
_Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts_ The prophet now, in the name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels, ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculat...
FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, this being the specific manner in which His punishment of destruction would be carried out. IT IS A MIGHTY NATION, IT IS...
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...
FROM FAR, viz. from Chaldea. _House of Israel_: by these are meant Judah; for Israel, properly so called, viz. the ten tribes, were in captivity before; see on JEREMIAH 4:1; called the house of Israel...
Jeremiah 5:15 bring H935 (H8688) nation H1471 afar H4801 house H1004 Israel H3478 says H5002 (H8803) LORD...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 5:15 The destroyer, Babylon, was indeed ANCIENT and famous for literature, religion, and for its inclination to go to war. ⇐
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...
1 Corinthians 14:21; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 7:7; D