This verse answers the question, May not Judah avert this calamity by repentance? No: because her sins are too inveterate. By the Ethiopian (Hebrew: Cushite) is meant not the Cushite of Arabia but of Africa, i. e., the negro.
Verse Jeremiah 13:23. _CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS SKIN_] Can a _black_, at his own pleasure, change the _colour_ of his _skin_? Can the _leopard_ at will change the _variety_ of his _spots_? These...
CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
JERUSALEM'S SHAME. This prophecy, as perhaps others in this chapter, would suit the position of affairs under Jehoiakim, after Carchemish (605). Jerusalem is asked concerning the welfare of her people...
CAN... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ and _Paroemia._. ACCUSTOMED. schooled, or trained....
The _v_. need not mean that Judah's sin was innate (see on Jeremiah 6:7), but that habits of evil preclude a return to righteousness. _the Ethiopian_ Through the Jews" intercourse with Egypt the Ethio...
Lament for the calamities brought about by Jerusalem's sin See, O Jerusalem, the northern foe descends on thee. What has become of thy goodly nation? How wilt thou endure those who were erst thy frie...
DISCOURSE: 1049 THE POWER OF EVIL HABITS Jeremiah 13:23. _Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil_. OF any particular _ac...
CAN THE ETHIOPIAN, &C.— Jeremiah does not mean hereby to express the absolute impossibility of a moral change; such as that in nature, whereof he speaks. To suppose this, would be to contradict the wh...
E. WARNING: Pride is Punished by Disgrace Jeremiah 13:20-27 TRANSLATION (20) Lift up your eyes and see them who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your glorious flock? (2...
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. ETHIOPIAN - the Cushite of Abyssinia. Habit is second nature; as therefore it...
13:23 Ethiopian (c-3) Or 'Cushite.'...
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
They are incapable of repentance....
CAN THE ETHIOPIAN...? — Literally, _the Cushite._ The meaning of the question is obvious. The evil of Judah was too deep-ingrained to be capable of spontaneous reformation. There remained nothing but...
הֲ יַהֲפֹ֤ךְ כּוּשִׁי֙ עֹורֹ֔ו וְ נָמֵ֖ר חֲבַ
CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...
The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
_Evil. Bad habits are a sort of second nature. I speak in vain. (Calmet) --- Yet God sometimes converts inveterate sinners, who cannot rise of themselves. (Worthington)_...
I interrupt not the reading of those verses, because they are connected. They contain the solemn expostulation of the Lord, in the view of their sins. They point out also the utter impossibility of th...
God declares in this verse, that the people were so hardened in their wickedness, that there was no hope of their repentance. This is the sum of what is said. But it was a very bitter reproof for the...
Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS SKIN?.... Or, "the Cushite"; either, as the Arabic version, the "Abyssine", the inhabitant of the eastern Ethiopia; properly an Ethiopian, as the Septuagint and Vulgate La...
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Ver. 23. _Can the Ethiopian change his skin?_] Proverbial speeches arguing a v...
_Can the Ethiopian change his skin_, &c. The word _Cushi_, here rendered _Ethiopian_, often signifies _Arabian_, in the Scriptures; Ethiopia being, by ancient writers, distinguished into _Eastern_ (th...
AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, turning it to a white color, OR THE LEOPARD HIS SPOTS, characteristic as they have become of him? THEN MAY YE ALSO DO GOOD THAT ARE ACCUSTOMED TO DO EVIL. The one wa...
ACCUSTOMED: _ Heb._ taught...
18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin....
In the Hebrew it is, CAN THE CUSHITE, & c.? from whence it is well concluded, as learned men judge, that the Ethiopians are of the posterity of Cush the son of Ham, brother to Mizraim, the father of t...
Jeremiah 13:23 Ethiopian H3569 change H2015 (H8799) skin H5785 leopard H5246 spots H2272 may H3201 (H8799) good
A FINAL APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, FOR IF THEY DO FAIL TO RESPOND THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT WILL COME UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 13:15). The people are called on to look to YHWH while there is s...
Jeremiah 13:23 I. Conversion is wholly the work of God, man himself being incapable of effecting it, by any means, or through any instrumentality. What is the judgment of Scripture with respect to the...
CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...
Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
_Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?_ THE ETHIOPIAN I. The question and its answer. 1. The difficulty in the sinner’s case lies-- (1) In the thoroughness of the operation....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
Isaiah 1:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Jeremiah 2:22; Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 5:3;...