Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Summarized Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 4:1-31

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 kindles the fires of God's wrath against them and brings destruction upon the land. That which is to be before He moves, which makes a way of escape for those who will sincerely turn to Him and receive His mercy.

dreaded above everything else is the wrath of God, but God always warns

Key Word: Desolations, Jeremiah 4:7.

Strong Verses: Jeremiah 4:22.

Continues after advertising

See also Jeremiah 4:1-31 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER IV _Sequel of the exhortations and promises addressed to Israel in_ _the preceding chapter_, 1, 2. _The prophet then addresses the people of Judah and Jerusalem,_ _exhorting to repentance...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    RETURN - The repentance of Israel described in Jeremiah 3:21 was a hope, and not a reality. The return, literally, would be their restoration to their land; spiritually, their abandoning their sins. J...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 3:19 TO JEREMIAH 4:4. A DIALOGUE OF YAHWEH'S GRACE. This directly continues Jeremiah 3:5, the I of Jeremiah 3:19 being emphatically contras

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    RETURN. Note the Figure of speech _Cycloides._ App-6. ISRAEL. Now referring to the northern kingdom. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THEN SHALT THOU NOT R...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _If thou wilt return, etc_.] The best rendering is perhaps as follows: _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, yea, return unto me_, continuing (with mg.), _and if thou wilt put … and wilt not...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 4:1. If Israel will sincerely repent and mend her ways, her prosperity will be the ideal for all nations. Let Judah dedicate herself in heart to Jehovah, otherwise heavy judgement shall be he...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration We may subdivide thus. (1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are invited to repent and return. (2)...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IF THOU WILT RETURN—RETURN UNTO ME— _If thou wilt return—thou shalt return._ [_Thou shalt dwell with me._ Houb.] _If thou wilt remove thy idols, thou shalt not be removed._ In the former part, says Ho...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    F. The Rewards of Repentance Jeremiah 4:1-4 TRANSLATION (1) If you return, O Israel, (oracle of the LORD) unto Me return; and if you will remove your abominations from before Me, and never waver (2)...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. IF THOU WILT RETURN, O ISRAEL, SAITH THE LO...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO JUDAH In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IV. (1) IF THOU WILT RETURN. — The “if” implies a return from the hopes with which Jeremiah 3 ended to the language of misgiving, and so, inferentially, of earnest exhortation. ABOMINATIONS. — Liter...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־תָּשׁ֨וּב יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל ׀ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֛ה אֵלַ֖י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PLEADING WITH FAITHLESS CHILDREN Jeremiah 3:11-25; Jeremiah 4:1-2 The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because their privil...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, (a) return to me: and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be removed. (a) That is, wholly and without hypocrisy,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Blocks; idols, (Calmet) and other occasions of sin. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS This Chapter, in the opening, is an address to Israel. The subject then relates to Judah and Jerusalem. Both are to one and the same amount; namely, God's gracious call to his people, to ret...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is there not here a sweet breaking out, in pointing to Him who is the Lord our righteousness? For in whom are the nations to be blessed, but in Jesus; or in whom can they glory? I pray the Reader to c...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet no doubt requires here from the people a sincere return to God, inasmuch as they had often pretended to confess their sins, and had given many signs of repentance, while they were acting d...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF THOU WILT RETURN, O ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD,.... To which they had been encouraged, and as they had promised they would, and said they did, Jeremiah 3:14: RETURN UNTO ME; with thy whole heart, and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel._] As t...

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

    _If thou wilt return, O Israel, return unto me_ Israel having promised repentance in the latter part of the preceding chapter, they are here directed what sort of a repentance it must be; that it must...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A LAST CALL TO RETURN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto Me, or, "if thou wilt return unto Me," the repetition serving to emphasize the anxious, merciful call of the Lord, AND IF THOU WILT PUT AWAY...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1,2 The first two verses should be read with the last chapter. Sin must be put away out of the heart, else it is not put away out of God's sight, for the heart is open before him....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4 An invitation to true repentance, by promises, JEREMIAH 4:1; and judgments coming on them by the Babylonians, contrary to the predictions of their false prophets, for their sins, JE...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 4:1 return H7725 (H8799) Israel H3478 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 Return H7725 (H8799) away...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If thou wilt return,.. .and if thou wilt put away thine abominations. .. then shalt thou not remove._ THE PLEADINGS OF GOD A strange ministry is that of Almightiness. It is almightiness--almost. So...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 4:1 True repentance includes removing DETESTABLE THINGS (idols) FROM God’s PRESENCE ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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_....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 7:3; 2 Chronicles 15:8; 2 Chronicles 33:8; 2 Kings 23:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    If — If thou wilt return, return; make no longer delay. Remove — Thou shalt not go out of thine own land into exile....

Continues after advertising