As a cage is full of birds— A trap-cage. כלוב kelub, comes from כלב keleb, a dog; and this name was undoubtedly given to the trap-cage, because it served the same purpose as a dog in assisting to catch game. That sort of trap-cage also seems to be alluded to, in which tame birds are put to hop and fly about as a decoy to others.
Verse Jeremiah 5:27. _AS A CAGE IS FULL OF BIRDS_] There is no doubt that the reference here is to a _decoy_ or _trap-cage_, as Dr. _Blayney_ has rendered it; in these the fowlers put several tame bir...
Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _ 2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10) 3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19) 4. The horrible thing ...
LET EVIL-DOERS FEAR YAHWEH. The folly of not fearing Yahweh is rebuked by a reminder of the power of Him who has set an impassable limit even to the sea (_cf._ the rebuke of Job's presumption by the d...
See summary at beginning of section....
_cage_ The Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Amos (Jeremiah 8:1), "a _basket_of summer fruit." Here, however, Cheyne (_Pulpit Comm., ad loc_.), quoting Hitzig, thinks that "the cage was at the same...
5. _Social injustice_ (Jeremiah 5:25-29) TRANSLATION (25) Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withheld good from you. (26) For wicked men are found among My people. They...
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. FULL OF DECEIT - full of treasures gotten by deceit. RICH - (; Psalms 73:18, "Beho...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
A CAGE. — The large wicker basket (Amos 8:1) in which the fowler kept the birds he had caught, or, possibly, used for decoy-birds....
כִּ כְלוּב֙ מָ֣לֵא עֹ֔וף כֵּ֥ן בָּתֵּיהֶ֖ם מְ
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
Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
The complaint in those verses ends with the same solemn and just enquiry, as we had before. I have often thought, and I see no reason to alter the sentiment, that never was there a scripture more suit...
Jeremiah goes on with the same subject. He made use, as we have said, of a similitude taken from fowling: he now applies this similitude to the Jews, — that _their houses _were _full of fraud, as the...
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...
AS A CAGE IS FULL OF BIRDS,.... Jarchi and Kimchi understand it of a place in which fowls, are brought up and fattened, what we call a "pen"; and, so the Targum renders it, a house or place of fatteni...
As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Ver. 27. _As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit,_] _i.e.,_...
_Your iniquities have turned away these things_ See note on Jeremiah 3:3. _For among my people are found wicked men_ I need not search for such among the heathen nations, for they are easily found amo...
BLINDNESS OF HEART, INGRATITUDE, DECEIT, AND VIOLENCE...
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit, filled with treasures gained by fraud; THEREFORE THEY ARE BECOME GREAT AND WAXEN RICH, their unrighteous wealth giving them a position o...
CAGE: Or, coop...
19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto t...
AS A CAGE IS FULL OF BIRDS, SO ARE THEIR HOUSES FULL OF DECEIT, i.e. they fill up their houses with the goods and wealth of those that they deceive and overreach; ill-gotten goods; a metonymy of the e...
Jeremiah 5:27 cage H3619 full H4392 birds H5775 houses H1004 full H4392 deceit H4820 great H1431 (H8804) rich...
YHWH ASKS HIS PEOPLE WHY IN VIEW OF HIS CLEARLY REVEALED POWER THEY DO NOT FEAR HIM, AND CONCLUDES THAT IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE REVOLUTIONARIES AND REBELS, CAUGHT UP IN SIN (JEREMIAH 5:20). YHWH addres...
YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH 5:1). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very tre...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against them and the judgments threatened. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his perf...
_As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great and waxen rich._ WICKED PROFESSORS THE BANE OF THE CHURCH I. God has a people on earth. 1. His creat...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 5:26 WICKED MEN grow FAT AND SLEEK through DEEDS OF EVIL. The FATHERLESS had no adult male in the family to protect a
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
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...
Amos 8:4; Habakkuk 2:9; Hosea 12:7; Hosea 12:8; Micah 1:12;...
Their houses — They fill their houses with the goods of those they deceive, and over — reach....