When men act as in Jeremiah 8:4, why is God’s own people alone an exception?
Slidden back ... backsliding - The same words as “turn” and “return” in Jeremiah 8:4. They should be rendered, “Why doth this people of Jerusalem turn away with a perpetual turning?”
Deceit - i. e., idolatry; because men worship in it that which is false, and it is false to the worshippers.
Refuse - From a feeling of dislike.
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 ...
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...
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
_slidden back … backsliding … return_ All three expressions are from the same root; "_turn back … backturning … to return_....
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...
CHAPTER EIGHT SERMONS FROM THE EARLY REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 10:25 The oracles in Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 1
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLID...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
SLIDDEN BACK... BACKSLIDING. — The English fails to give the full emphasis of the re-iteration of the same word as in the previous verse. _Why doth this people of Jerusalem turn away with a perpetual...
מַדּ֨וּעַ שֹׁובְבָ֜ה הָ עָ֥ם הַ זֶּ֛ה יְרוּשׁ
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
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...
Whoever will impartially consider the discourse of the Prophet must see that this is the real meaning; for, in the second of these verses, he says, _Why is this people of Jerusalem, etc_. ; he now fir...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING?.... These people fill into sin, and rise not again by repentance; they turn out of the good ways of God and religion, and...
Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. Ver. 5. _Why then is this people of Jerusalem? &c._] Why else but because...
_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...
THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...
Why, then, is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? Why do they persist so obstinately in their perverse ways? THEY HOLD FAST DECEIT, clinging to their hypocritical behavio...
4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...
BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING: either a universal backsliding; or rather, obstinately resolved to hold on, though they see they are out of the way; not out of levity or inconsiderateness. The Hebrew word...
Jeremiah 8:5 people H5971 back H7725 (H8790) Jerusalem H3389 perpetual H5329 (H8737) backsliding H4878 hold H2388 ...
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...
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 bo...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_They hold fast deceit._ ON THE DECEITFULNESS OF THE HEART IN STIFLING CONVICTIONS These words, as immediately referring to the people of Judah, might denote their preposterous confidence in the assi...
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...
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...
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 bones of the inha...
1 Thessalonians 5:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Hebrews 12:25; Hosea 11:7;...
Deceit — Their false prophets, encouraging themselves in their wickedness, and pleasing themselves, that their miseries should not come upon them....