The bellows are burned - Worn out by continual blowing. The prophet has exhausted all his efforts. His heart, consumed by the heat of divine inspiration, can labor no more. Others translate “The bellows snort,” i. e., blow furiously. More probably, “The bellows glow” with the strong heat of the fire.
Plucked away - Separated. The smelter’s object is to separate the metal from the dross.
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 PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...
FOUNDER MELTETH. refiner refineth....
The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
The figure from refining metals is continued from Jeremiah 6:27. "In refining, the alloy containing the gold or silver is mixed with lead, and fused in a furnace on a vessel of earth or bone-ash: a cu...
In these _vv_. the Lord reassures Jeremiah of his divine commission, and he appears under the figure of one testing metal. The result of the testing process is that no precious metal is found. All is...
I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial, m...
6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30) TRANSLATION (27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebelliou...
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED - so intense a heat is made that the very bellows...
6:29 burned, (a-4) * i.e. so that the current of air, needed to cause the lead to carry off the dross, ceased, leaving unrefined (reprobate) silver. It might read 'the bellows puff.' fire; (b-11) Othe...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
All the prophet's fervour is without effect. Nothing of value rewards the long assay. ARE BURNED] RV 'blow fiercely.' PLUCKED AWAY] i.e. eliminated from the good....
THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED. — Better, _burn,_ or _glow._ In the interpretation of the parable the “bellows” answer to the life of the prophet as filled with the breath or spirit of Jehovah. He is, as it w...
נָחַ֣ר מַפֻּ֔חַ _מֵ_†_אֵ֖שׁ_† _תַּ֣ם_† עֹפָ֑רֶת לַ †
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,...
The (x) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. (x) All the pain and labour that has been taken with them is lost....
_Bellows, or crucible. --- Lead, which was intermixed to purify the dross (St. Jerome) of gold and silver. But brass and iron could not be thus purified. All would be lost labour. Afflictions do not c...
The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
He says, that the _bellows _was consumed by _the fire _and without any advantage. The whole sentence is metaphorical. Interpreters refer it simply to what was taught; and hence they consider the mouth...
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...
THE BELLOWS ARE BURNT,.... Which Kimchi interprets of the mouth and throat of the prophet, which, through reproving the people, were dried up, and become raucous and hoarse, and without any profit to...
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. Ver. 29. _The bellows are burnt._] The prophet's lungs are spent; all their...
_They are all grievous revolters_ Obstinate and refractory; _walking with slanders_ Making it their business to detract from thee and the other prophets. Blaney translates the clause, _They are all of...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
The bellows are burned, in the long process which was intended to purify the people and produce some amount of gold, THE LEAD IS CONSUMED OF THE FIRE, or, "out of its fire comes lead," instead of the...
18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED: the prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating herein that the prophets had spent their lungs to no purpose; see the like PSALMS 22:15, PSALMS 69...
Jeremiah 6:29 bellows H4647 fiercely H2787 (H8738) lead H5777 consumed H8552 (H8804) fire H800 H784 smelter...
JEREMIAH LEARNS THAT YHWH HAS ESTABLISHED HIM AS AN ASSAYER OF HIS PEOPLE, AS WELL AS THEIR FORTRESS, ALTHOUGH ALL THAT HE WILL DISCOVER WILL BE THAT THEY ARE A MIXTURE OF BASE METAL AND DROSS (JEREMI...
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...
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...
_The bellows are burnt._ THE BELLOWS BURNT Apply to-- I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus Himself....
A PAIR OF BELLOWS The bellows. Jeremiah 6:29. Our text today is a word used only once in the Bible, yet we all know it well, and many of us have in our homes the thing it stands for. Turn up the Bo...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:27 TESTER OF METALS. Jeremiah’s task is to assess how much impurity remains in a people called to be pure. The ancient refining process used heated lead to draw out ore fro...
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...
1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:12; Ezekiel 24:13; Hosea 11:7; Isaiah 49:4;...
The bellows — The prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating, that the prophets had spent their breath to no purpose, and their strength was consumed by their labour. Th...