B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 9:6
Through deceit they refuse to know me.
Most skepticism results from. desire not to believe. It is when the truth is received "into honest hearts" that it brings forth.
Through deceit they refuse to know me.
Most skepticism results from. desire not to believe. It is when the truth is received "into honest hearts" that it brings forth.
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jeremiah 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, wi...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _ 2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10) 3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...
The MT. has apparently suffered some corruption. The LXX yield a fairly good sense. Dividing the four consonants of the Hebrew word rendered "thine habitation," so as to end Jeremiah 9:5 with the firs...
THINE HABITATION IS IN THE MIDST OF DECEIT— Houbigant follows the LXX, and renders the verse, _They add usury to usury, and deceit to deceit, they refuse,_ &c. The experimental knowledge of God, which...
II. NATIONAL CORRUPTION Jeremiah 9:2-26 Jeremiah does not allow himself to be overcome by his personal feelings regarding the gloomy future of his people. The destruction of Judah is a punishment well...
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. THINE HABITATION - God addresses Jeremiah, who dwelt in the midst of deceitful men. THEY REFUSE T...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
THINE HABITATION... — The words may be an individualised, and therefore more emphatic, reproduction of the general warning of Jeremiah 9:4. It is, however, better to take them as spoken by Jehovah to...
_[Jeremiah 9:5]_ שִׁבְתְּךָ֖ בְּ תֹ֣וךְ מִרְמָ֑ה בְּ...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
NATIONAL PERVERSITY Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet could only w...
In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
Thy habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; (g) through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. (g) They would rather have forsaken God than left their wicked trade....
How blessed is it to behold faithful ministers, who enter into a deep concern for their people. What a beautiful portrait is here undesignedly drawn of Jeremiah. How endeared is that servant of the Lo...
The Prophet here introduces God as the speaker, that the Jews might know that they had not to do with mortal man. For they might, according to their usual perverseness, have raised this objection, “Th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
THINE HABITATION IS IN THE MIDST OF DECEIT,.... In the midst of a people of deceit, as Kimchi and Ben Molech. These are the words of the Lord to the prophet, showing what a people he dwelt among, and...
Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Ver. 6. _Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit,_] _i.e., _ Of deceitful persons, who have hon...
_Take ye heed every one of his neighbour_ Or, _of his friend_, as רעהו rather signifies; of him who pretends friendship to him, or whom he has befriended. _And trust ye not in a brother_ Against whom...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit, so God tells Jeremiah in characterizing the entire nation; THROUGH DECEIT THEY REFUSE TO KNOW ME, SAITH THE LORD, their ignorance of Jehovah being willful a...
1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
This God speaks to the prophet, either to inform him that there is no hope of this people's reformation, JEREMIAH 8:5; therefore he expresseth a deceitful people by the abstract, DECEIT, i.e. nothing...
Jeremiah 9:6 place H3427 (H8800) midst H8432 deceit H4820 deceit H4820 refuse H3985 (H8765) know H3045 ...
Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!_ Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of th...
_Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit._ STRONG INDICTMENT OF CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES Who has not felt as Jeremiah? “This is a Christian country.” Why? Because the majority are as bent on self-plea...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going on pace for pace...
Now Jeremiah declares, Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
1 Corinthians 15:34; Hosea 4:6; Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 13:10;...