They are brought to shame because
They have “committed abomination:”
Shame nevertheless they feel not;
To blush nevertheless they know not;
“Therefore they shall fall among” the falling;
“At the time” when “I visit them, they shall” stumble,
“Saith Yahweh.”
The fact is expressed that their conduct was a disgrace to them, though they did not feel it as such. “Abomination” has its usual meaning of idolatry Jeremiah 4:1.
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his wo...
COULD THEY. knew they how to....
_Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination_?] THEY SHALL BE PUT TO SHAME, BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED ABOMINATION (so mg.). This part of the verse is made interrogative in the English in o...
These verses are almost identical with ch. Jeremiah 8:10-12, where they are probably a later insertion....
See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again. Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited the Northern tribes, but many times....
3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15) TRANSLATION (9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they...
6:15 that (d-4) Or 'They have come to shame because.' so in ch. 8.12....
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
WERE THEY ASHAMED...? — The Hebrew gives an assertion, not a question — _They are brought to shame_ (as in Jeremiah 2:26), _because they have committed abominations._ And yet, the prophet adds, “they...
הֹבִ֕ישׁוּ כִּ֥י תֹועֵבָ֖ה עָשׂ֑וּ גַּם ־בֹּ֣ושׁ...
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
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
_FAILURES_ ‘They shall fall among them that fall.’ Jeremiah 6:15 How many men start in London with the fairest possible promise, but who ultimately, alas, become occasional inmates of the casual wa...
Jeremiah turns now his discourse to the whole people. In the last verse he reproved only the priests and the prophets; he now speaks more generally, and says, that they had put off all shame. “Behold,...
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...
WERE THEY ASHAMED WHEN THEY HAD COMMITTED ABOMINATION?.... This seems chiefly, and in the first place, to respect the false prophets and wicked priests; who when they committed idolatry, or any other...
_Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them the...
_For, from the least of them_, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; _every one is given to covetousness_ Greedy of filthy lucre; and this m...
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? rather, "They are put to shame because they have wrought abominable things. " NAY, THEY WERE NOT AT ALL ASHAMED, NEITHER COULD THEY BLUSH; they w...
THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin b...
WERE THEY, viz. the false prophets, ashamed? Some read it actively, as sometimes it is taken, Did they put the people to shame? but that is not so proper here; it rather notes how bold and confident,...
Jeremiah 6:15 ashamed H3001 (H8689) committed H6213 (H8804) abomination H8441 No H1571 all H954 (H8800) ashamed...
IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...
JEREMIAH IS CALLED ONCE MORE TO SIFT JERUSALEM FOR RIGHTEOUS MEN AND HIS RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS DESPAIRING OF EVER FINDING ONE AS HE SUMS UP THEIR FALLEN STATE AND CALLS ON YHWH TO FULFIL HI...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...
Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...
_They were not at all ashamed._ SHAMELESSNESS IN SIN, THE CERTAIN FORERUNNER OF DESTRUCTION He who has thus sinned himself past feeling, may be justly supposed to have sinned himself past grace. 1....
THE COLOR OF VIRTUE I am ashamed and blush. Ezra 9:6. Neither could they blush. Jeremiah 6:15. Did you ever hear the story of how the Virginian creeper got its blush? The story is only a legend, bu...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:13 Greed always leads to seeking UNJUST GAIN. PROPHET... PRIEST. These religious leaders are as greedy as the people. Thus, they promise PEACE rather
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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...
Exodus 32:34; Ezekiel 14:10; Ezekiel 14:9; Ezekiel 16:24; Ezekiel 1
Committed — Both by encouraging the people, and joining with them in their idolatries....