To whom shall I speak...? — The prophet, who now speaks in his own name, has heard the message from the Lord of Hosts; but what avails it? who will listen? As elsewhere the lips (Exodus 6:30) and the heart (Leviticus 26:41; Ezekiel 44:7), so here the ear of Israel was uncircumcised, as though it had never been brought into covenant with Jehovah or consecrated to His service.
A reproach. — i.e., the object of their scorn.
Verse Jeremiah 6:10. _THE WORD OF THE LORD IS UNTO THEM A REPROACH_] It is an object of _derision_; they _despise it_....
GIVE WARNING - Rather testify. REPROACH - They make the Word of God the object of their ridicule....
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his wo...
GIVE WARNING. testify. EAR IS UNCIRCUMCISED. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 6:12; Exodus 6:30; Leviticus 26:41). Figure of speech _Catachresis_ (App-6). An ear not brought into the covenant. A REPRO...
See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again. Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited the Northern tribes, but many times....
_their ear is uncircumcised_ dedicated not to God's service, but to profane uses only. Cp. Acts 7:51; so of the lips, Exodus 6:12; Exodus 6:30....
3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15) TRANSLATION (9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
UNCIRCUMCISED] in the sense of 'imperfect': cp. Exodus 6:12....
עַל ־מִ֨י אֲדַבְּרָ֤ה וְ אָעִ֨ידָה֙ וְ יִשְׁמ
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
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] (k) uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight...
_Uncircumcised. Impure and deaf. (Calmet) --- Non vocat impossibilitas supplicio quæ de contemptu et infidelitate descendit. (St. Jerome)_...
All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
The Prophet here shews there was no reason for him to labor any longer in trying to reform the people, for he spoke to the deaf. He had said before, according to our lecture yesterday, that God was st...
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...
TO WHOM SHALL I SPEAK, AND GIVE WARNING, THAT THEY MAY HEAR?.... These are the words of the prophet, despairing of any success by his ministry; suggesting that the people were so universally depraved,...
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight i...
_To whom shall I speak and give warning?_ I cannot find out any that will so much as give me a patient hearing, much less will any take warning. I cannot speak with any hope of success. _Behold, their...
To whom shall I speak and give warning, so the prophet now voices his objection, THAT THEY MAY HEAR? Of what use is all remonstrance under such circumstances? BEHOLD, THEIR EAR IS UNCIRCUMCISED, close...
THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin b...
GIVE WARNING, Heb. _make protestation_; noting with what earnestness the prophet would bespeak them in his warning of them: see JEREMIAH 11:7. The prophet taking notice of their obstinacy, speaks as o...
Jeremiah 6:10 speak H1696 (H8762) warning H5749 (H8686) hear H8085 (H8799) ear H241 uncircumcised H6189 cannot...
IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...
JEREMIAH IS CALLED ONCE MORE TO SIFT JERUSALEM FOR RIGHTEOUS MEN AND HIS RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS DESPAIRING OF EVER FINDING ONE AS HE SUMS UP THEIR FALLEN STATE AND CALLS ON YHWH TO FULFIL HI...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...
Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...
_They have no delight in it._ THE IMPEDIMENTS TO THE RIGHT CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS ORDINANCES You will readily admit, that the feeling of delight accompanying the performance of anything is, for the...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:10 TO WHOM SHALL I SPEAK? Every segment of society (Jeremiah 1:15;...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:15; 2 Chronicles 36:16; 2 Timothy 4:3; Acts 7:51;...
Their ear — An uncircumcised ear, signifies the rejecting of instruction; an uncircumcised heart, an obstinate and rebellious will. They cannot — They had brought themselves under that incapacity by t...