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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 6:29

The bellows are burned. — Better, burn, or glow. In the interpretation of the parable the “bellows” answer to the life of the prophet as filled with the breath or spirit of Jehovah. He is, as it were, consumed with that fiery blast, and yet his work is faulty.

The lead is consumed... — Better, from their fire is lead only. A different punctuation gives, The bellows burn with fire; yet lead is the only outcome. The point lies in the fact that lead was used as a flux in smelting silver ore. The founder in the case supposed went on with his work till the lead was melted, but he found no silver after all.

Plucked away. — Better, separated or purified, as in keeping with the metaphor.

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See also Jeremiah 6:29 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED - Worn out by continual blowing. The prophet has exhausted all his efforts. His heart, consumed by the heat of divine inspiration, can labor no more. Others translate “The bello...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOUNDER MELTETH. refiner refineth....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The figure from refining metals is continued from Jeremiah 6:27. "In refining, the alloy containing the gold or silver is mixed with lead, and fused in a furnace on a vessel of earth or bone-ash: a cu...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In these _vv_. the Lord reassures Jeremiah of his divine commission, and he appears under the figure of one testing metal. The result of the testing process is that no precious metal is found. All is...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial, m...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30) TRANSLATION (27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebelliou...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED - so intense a heat is made that the very bellows...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:29 burned, (a-4) * i.e. so that the current of air, needed to cause the lead to carry off the dross, ceased, leaving unrefined (reprobate) silver. It might read 'the bellows puff.' fire; (b-11) Othe...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-8. The hostile army approaches....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    All the prophet's fervour is without effect. Nothing of value rewards the long assay. ARE BURNED] RV 'blow fiercely.' PLUCKED AWAY] i.e. eliminated from the good....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נָחַ֣ר מַפֻּ֔חַ _מֵ_†_אֵ֖שׁ_† _תַּ֣ם_† עֹפָ֑רֶת לַ †

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

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

    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,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The (x) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. (x) All the pain and labour that has been taken with them is lost....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Bellows, or crucible. --- Lead, which was intermixed to purify the dross (St. Jerome) of gold and silver. But brass and iron could not be thus purified. All would be lost labour. Afflictions do not c...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He says, that the _bellows _was consumed by _the fire _and without any advantage. The whole sentence is metaphorical. Interpreters refer it simply to what was taught; and hence they consider the mouth...

  • 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

    THE BELLOWS ARE BURNT,.... Which Kimchi interprets of the mouth and throat of the prophet, which, through reproving the people, were dried up, and become raucous and hoarse, and without any profit to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. Ver. 29. _The bellows are burnt._] The prophet's lungs are spent; all their...

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

    _They are all grievous revolters_ Obstinate and refractory; _walking with slanders_ Making it their business to detract from thee and the other prophets. Blaney translates the clause, _They are all of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The bellows are burned, in the long process which was intended to purify the people and produce some amount of gold, THE LEAD IS CONSUMED OF THE FIRE, or, "out of its fire comes lead," instead of the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED: the prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating herein that the prophets had spent their lungs to no purpose; see the like PSALMS 22:15, PSALMS 69...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 6:29 bellows H4647 fiercely H2787 (H8738) lead H5777 consumed H8552 (H8804) fire H800 H784 smelter...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH LEARNS THAT YHWH HAS ESTABLISHED HIM AS AN ASSAYER OF HIS PEOPLE, AS WELL AS THEIR FORTRESS, ALTHOUGH ALL THAT HE WILL DISCOVER WILL BE THAT THEY ARE A MIXTURE OF BASE METAL AND DROSS (JEREMI...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The bellows are burnt._ THE BELLOWS BURNT Apply to-- I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus Himself....

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    A PAIR OF BELLOWS The bellows. Jeremiah 6:29. Our text today is a word used only once in the Bible, yet we all know it well, and many of us have in our homes the thing it stands for. Turn up the Bo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:27 TESTER OF METALS. Jeremiah’s task is to assess how much impurity remains in a people called to be pure. The ancient refining process used heated lead to draw out ore fro...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:12; Ezekiel 24:13; Hosea 11:7; Isaiah 49:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The bellows — The prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating, that the prophets had spent their breath to no purpose, and their strength was consumed by their labour. Th...

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