Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Jeremiah 8:4
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.
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.
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...
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 g...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה...
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...
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?...
_Again. Why then do not the people strive to repent?_...
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...
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...
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...
MOREOVER, THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM,.... The Jews, in Jeremiah's time, in order to leave them inexcusable, though the Lord had before assured that they would not hearken to him, Jeremiah 7:27: THUS SA...
_Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?_ Ver. 4. _Shall they fall, and not arise?_] Or, When men fall, will they n...
_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...
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...
THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...
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...
MOREOVER THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM; though possibly it be all in vain, yet thou shalt keep in thy work. SHALL THEY FALL, AND NOT ARISE? an interrogation that hath the force of a negative, i.e. surely n...
Jeremiah 8:4 say H559 (H8804) says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 fall H5307 (H8799) rise H6965 ...
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...
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 Kings 8:38; Amos 5:2; Ezekiel 18:23; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 6:1;...
Not arise — Will they never think of rising again? Not return — Will he wander for ever?...