Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 4:8
Is not turned ... - As long as their sins are unrepented of, so long must their punishment continue.
Is not turned ... - As long as their sins are unrepented of, so long must their punishment continue.
Verse Jeremiah 4:8. _LAMENT AND HOWL_] הילילו _heililu_. The aboriginal Irish had a funeral song called the _Caoinian_, still continued among their descendants, one part of which is termed the _ulalo...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I
THE ENEMY'S APPROACH. Warning is given by the horn, and guidance, to the refugees fleeing to Jerusalem, by the standard; they are bidden to bring (their families) into safety (not flee for safety). Th...
Flee without delay, if so be that walls can save you. The foe from the north threatens ruin to town and country alike. Terror shall seize the greatest in the land, and dismay the priests and prophets....
Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...
CHAPTER SIX SERMONS FROM THE REIGN OF JOSIAH (Continued) III. GOD'S WARNING To HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 4:5 to Jeremiah 6:26 Following his treatment of repentance Jeremiah takes up at length the subject...
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. Nothing is left to the Jews but to bewail their desperate condition. ANGER OF THE LOR...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
I SAW] some read, 'she saw.' BILL OF DI VORCE] i.e. exile....
GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH. — From the earliest times the outward sign of mourning, and therefore of repentance (Joel 1:8; Isaiah 22:12)....
עַל ־זֹ֛את חִגְר֥וּ שַׂקִּ֖ים סִפְד֣וּ וְ הֵי
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
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
The Prophet here opens his commission to the men of Judah and Jerusalem; and in the prospect of the Babylonish captivity, now hastening, admonisheth them to seek the Lord. The Prophet, like a faithful...
The Prophet seems not yet to exhort his own nation to repent: a more gracious doctrine will presently follow; but here he only reminds them that a most grievous mourning was nigh at hand; for he saw t...
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...
FOR THIS GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH, LAMENT AND HOWL,.... That is, because of this destruction threatened, which was so near at hand, and so sure and certain: FOR THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD IS NOT TUR...
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. Ver. 8. _For this, gird you with sackcloth._] Repent, if at least it be not too late, a...
_The lion is come up from his thicket_ Nebuchadnezzar, so called from his fierceness and strength, shall come up from Babylon, where his chief seat is, as lions are principally among the thickets of t...
DESCRIPTION OF THE JUDGMENT UNDER THREE EMBLEMS...
For this, on account of the impending destruction, GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH, the garment of deep mourning, LAMENT AND HOWL; FOR THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD IS NOT TURNED BACK FROM US. Cf Isaiah 9:12;...
5-18 The fierce conqueror of the neighbouring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by false prophets. The approach of the enemy is desc...
GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH; the usual habit of mourners, especially in those days, ISAIAH 22:12 JEREMIAH 6:26: it is a calling upon them to repent. LAMENT AND HOWL: probably these expressions do import t...
Jeremiah 4:8 clothe H2296 (H8798) sackcloth H8242 Lament H5594 (H8798) wail H3213 (H8685) fierce H2740 anger...
YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...
JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....
Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...
But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
Amos 8:10; Ezekiel 21:12; Ezekiel 30:2; Isaiah 10:4; Isaiah 13:6;...