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Jeremiah 8:8

JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 8:8 The Judeans possess God’s law, just as they possess the temple. But their scribes, the professional copiers and teachers of the Scriptures, have altered God’s word to fit their own desires. Thus, they have made it into a lie.

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See also Jeremiah 8:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 8:8. _THE PEN OF THE SCRIBES_ IS _IN VAIN._] The _deceitful pen_ of the scribes. They have written falsely, though they had the truth before them. It is too bold an assertion to say tha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LAW OF THE LORD - The “Torah,” or written law, the possession of which made the priests and prophets so boastfully exclaim, “We are wise.” LO, CERTAINLY ... - Rather, Verily, lo! the lying pen “of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NO MAN. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus),. scarcely any....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the law_ The reply of the priests such as the two Pashhurs (Jeremiah 20:1; Jeremiah 21:1) and prophets such as Shemaiah (Jeremiah 29:24) was, We _do_know the Law and have it in writing. But, behold,...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1041 EXPOSTULATION WITH THE IMPENITENT Jeremiah 8:4. Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? Shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this peop...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. Unwise Proclamations by National Leaders Jeremiah 8:8-12 TRANSLATION (8) How can you say, We are wise! The Torah of the LORD is with us. But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has labored false...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. THE LAW OF THE LORD IS WITH US - (, "Behold, thou art called a J...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LO, CERTAINLY IN VAIN.. IN vain] RV 'But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely,' i.e. they have used their knowledge of the Law to deceive others, persuading them that they may tr...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HOW DO YE SAY...? — The question is put to priests and prophets, who were the recognised expounders of the Law, but not to them only. The order of scribes, which became so dominant during the exile, w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֵיכָ֤ה תֹֽאמְרוּ֙ חֲכָמִ֣ים אֲנַ֔חְנוּ וְ תֹורַ֥ת...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain he hath made [it]; (f) the pen of the scribes [is] in vain. (f) The law does not profit you neither need it t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Falsehood. The impostors have deceived you, and they are themselves taken prisoners. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Interpreters think that the Prophet here directs his words to the priests, and the false prophets, and the other chiefs of the people, because they proudly arrogated to themselves the knowledge of the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HOW DO YE SAY, WE ARE WISE,.... Which they were continually boasting of, though they were ignorant of the judgment of the Lord, and were more stupid than the stork, turtle, crane, and swallow: AND TH...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain. Ver. 8. _How do ye say, We are wise?_] If ye were so, ye w...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _How do ye say, We are wise?_ As if he had said, These things considered, where is your wisdom? you see the very fowls of the air are not so stupid as you are. He speaks not merely to the princes and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    How do ye say, We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with us? They prided themselves upon their possessing the Law, Romans 2:17; but this fact alone served rather to emphasize their dead orthodoxy,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CERTAINLY, IN VAIN MADE HE IT, THE PEN OF THE SCRIBES IS IN VAIN: Or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HOW DO YE SAY, WE ARE WISE? q. d. These things considered, where is your wisdom, when you see the very fowls of the air are not so stupid as you are? he speaks either to princes and priests, or to the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 8:8 say H559 (H8799) wise H2450 law H8451 LORD H3068 false H8267 pen H5842 scribe H5608 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH EXPRESSES AMAZEMENT AT THE UNWILLINGNESS OF HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN TO HIM, AND THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS REQUIREMENTS, AND WARNS THEM THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (JEREMIA...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:7 Our text makes mention of the discrimination of times by the faculty of instinct, and contrasts it favourably with man's want of discrimination, though endowed with reason. I. The birds...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times._ INSTINCT CONTRASTED WITH REASON IN ITS DISCERNMENT OF TIMES I. The birds of passage show in their periodic migrations, their discernment of seas...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:18; Hosea 8:12; Isaiah 10:1; Isaiah 10:2; Job 11:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    How — These things considered where is your wisdom? He speaks to the whole body of the people. The Lord — This may have a more special eye to the priests. In vain — For any use they made of it; neithe...

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