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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 8:4

The prophet here resumes from Jeremiah 7:28 the main subject of his prophecy. He again invites the Jews to repentance.

Shall they fall? - The argument is that when men fall, they do not lie upon the ground, but endeavor to get up again: and when a man loses his way, he does not persist in going on, but turns round, and retraces his steps. Israel then will be only following the dictates of comnon sense in desisting from that which she now knows to be her ruin.

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See also Jeremiah 8:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 8:4. _MOREOVER THOU SHALT SAY_] Dr. _Blayney_ very properly observes, "In that part of the prophecy which follows next, the difference of speakers requires to be attended to; the trans...

  • 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

    ARISE. rise up again. HE TURN AWAY, AND. The _Massorah_ (vol. II, p. 54, Ginsburg's edition) calls attention to the fact that of the two words represented by "turn" and "and", the first letter of the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    We have had (chs. Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3) a kind of parenthesis, setting forth the nature of the coming punishment. Jeremiah now returns to the subject of the conduct which has procured it....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SHALL HE TURN AWAY— _Or he that turneth away, shall he not return?_ Houbigant renders it, _Shall they who are alienated never return?_ The similitude, says he, is taken from a man who falls by neglect...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? SHALL THEY FALL, AND NOT ARISE? SHALL HE TURN AWAY, AND NOT RETURN? - `Is...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY] RV 'men.' If a man stumble, he will naturally regain his footing: if he lose his way he will return to it. Not so with this people....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALL HE TURN. — Better, as both clauses arc indefinite, _Shall men fall and not arise? Shall one turn away and not return?_ The appeal is made to the common practice of men. Those who fall struggle t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Moreover thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they (c) fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return? (c) Is there no hope that they will return?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Again. Why then do not the people strive to repent?_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Was there ever a more beautiful figure chosen to depicture the extreme folly of the human understanding, than in the contrast here drawn between the inconsiderateness of man, and the thoughtfulness of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Though God had reminded his Prophet of the event, yet he still invites the Jews to repentance; not that there was any hope of restoring them to a right mind, (for he had said that they were wholly irr...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _Moreover, thou shalt say_, &c. The prophet is here directed to set before the Jews the unreasonableness and folly of their impenitence, which was the thing that brought this ruin upon them. And he re...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Shall they fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return? or, "Shall a man fall and not get up again? Shall one wander off and not retu...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 8:4 say H559 (H8804) says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 fall H5307 (H8799) rise H6965 ...

  • 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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • 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

    _Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding._ A GREAT EVIL AND AN URGENT QUESTION I. A great evil. “Backsliding.” 1. It is an evil in its nature; it is a great sin...

  • 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

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:38; Amos 5:2; Ezekiel 18:23; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 6:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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