Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 5:23
Verse Jeremiah 5:23. They are revolted and gone.] They have abandoned me, and are gone farther and farther into transgression. They are gone entirely away from truth and righteousness.
Verse Jeremiah 5:23. They are revolted and gone.] They have abandoned me, and are gone farther and farther into transgression. They are gone entirely away from truth and righteousness.
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....
The people are rebellious, even as inanimate nature sometimes is. But Jehovah can control both....
DISCOURSE: 1039 GOD’S BOUNTIES, AND OUR INGRATITUDE Jeremiah 5:23. _This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart. They are revolted and gone: neither say they in. their heart, Let us now fear...
4. _Religious apostasy_ (Jeremiah 5:19-24) TRANSLATION (19) And it shall come to pass when you shall say, For what reason did the LORD our God do all these things to us? Then you shall say unto them,...
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. THIS PEOPLE HATH A REVOLTING AND A REBELLIOUS HEART - ()....
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
BUT THIS PEOPLE... — The contrast seems to lie in the fact that the elements are subject to God’s will, but that man’s rebellious will, with its fatal gift of freedom, has the power to resist it. The...
וְ לָ † עָ֤ם הַ זֶּה֙ הָיָ֔ה...
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...
Reader! observe how graciously the Lord goeth on to expostulate, and to reason with his people. Both Israel and Judah shall hear. And by what strong appeals from his omnipotency, he calls them to cons...
Here the previous verse is completed; for what is said here is connected with the question which we have noticed. But God now proves more clearly why he adduced what he said of the sea. The copulative...
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...
Ver. 23 BUT THIS PEOPLE HATH A REVOLTING AND A REBELLIOUS HEART,.... They are not so obedient as the sea and its waves; nor so firm and stable as the sand that is set for the bound of it. This is a re...
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Ver. 23. _But this people have a revolting and rebellious heart._] _a_ _Cor recedens et amaricans; _ gone they are...
_Fear ye not me? saith the Lord_ He ascribes their stupidity and foolishness to their want of the fear of God. As if he had said, If you would but call to mind God's almighty power, and your own weakn...
But this people hath a revolting and rebellious heart, not only apostate, but positively hostile to the Lord; THEY ARE REVOLTED, breaking loose from their affiliation with the Lord, and gone, far away...
BLINDNESS OF HEART, INGRATITUDE, DECEIT, AND VIOLENCE...
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...
They are not only revolted from me, and gone back, but they continue obstinate, and will not return, PSALMS 78:8, as the next clause intimates, where God shows their obstinacy by the effect of it. GON...
Jeremiah 5:23 people H5971 defiant H5637 (H8802) rebellious H4784 (H8802) heart H3820 revolted H5493 (H8804) depar
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 5:23 I. One of our besetting sins is the habit of overlooking God's hand in the midst of His own works. It is a sin of very old standing in the world, and it has its root in unbelief, becaus...
Jeremiah 5:21 Notice the results of self-will as shown in the text. I. Self-will in relation to the Divine government destroys the natural capacities and faculties of man. II. Self-will in relation...
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...
_O foolish people, and without understanding._ GOD’S JUDGMENT OF SELF-WILL The text is part of a message which was to be declared in the house of Jacob, and published in Israel. It shows that three...
_But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone._ ISRAEL’S APOSTASY Our state of heart and mind toward God is shown, not by those emotions which are kindled in u...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 5:23 Rather than a circumcised heart (Jeremiah 4:4), the people have a STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS HEART ...
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...
Hebrews 3:12; Hosea 11:7; Hosea 4:8; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 31:6;...
Gone — From me....