Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 8:7
Verse Jeremiah 8:7. The stork in the heaven] The birds of passage know the times of their going and return, and punctually observe them; they obey the dictates of nature, but my people do not obey my law.
Verse Jeremiah 8:7. The stork in the heaven] The birds of passage know the times of their going and return, and punctually observe them; they obey the dictates of nature, but my people do not obey my law.
Jeremiah appeals to the obedience which migratory birds render to the law of their natures. The “stork” arrives in Palestine about March 21, and after a six weeks’ halt departs for the north of Europe...
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...
KNOWETH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the effect of acting on the knowledge. TURTLE. turtle-dove....
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...
Instinct renders migratory birds punctual in departure and arrival. How much more should man's reason and conscience exercise over him an effective control. Cp. Isaiah 1:3. _stork_ There are two spec...
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...
YEA, THE STORK IN THE HEAVEN— "These birds know by natural instinct the seasons when to return to the places of their former abode; whereas this people never think of returning to their former and onl...
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
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. THE STORK I...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
THE TURTLE AND THE CRANE AND THE SWALLOW] rather, 'The turtle dove and the swift and the crane': cp. Isaiah 1:3....
THE STORK IN THE HEAVEN. — The eye of the prophet looked on nature at once with the quick observation of one who is alive to all her changes, and with the profound thought of a poet finding inner mean...
גַּם ־חֲסִידָ֣ה בַ † שָּׁמַ֗יִם יָֽדְעָה֙ מֹֽועֲדֶ֔יהָ...
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...
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the (e) judgment of the LORD. (e) He ac...
_Stork. These birds retire at the approach of winter to warmer climates. In Poland swallows plunge into marshes, like frogs. If instinct teach them to do so, for their preservation, is it not strange...
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...
_A LESSON FROM THE STORK_ ‘The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times.’ Jeremiah 8:7 We could lay down on the map the great highways along which bird-life comes and goes. How do they know...
Here again Jeremiah condemns the shameful insensibility of the people, — that they had less wisdom than birds, not endued with reason and understanding. He then says, that the Jews were more foolish t...
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...
YEA, THE STORK IN THE HEAVEN KNOWETH HER APPOINTED TIMES,.... Of going and returning; for this is a bird of passage, as Pliny d and other naturalists observe; which goes away as winter approaches, and...
_Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD._ Ver. 7. _Ye...
_Yea, the stork knoweth her appointed times_ Of going and returning; _the turtle and the crane, &c., the time of their coming_ The proper season for changing their climate. Taught by natural instinct,...
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, the regular migration seasons; AND THE TURTLE, that is, the turtle-dove, AND THE CRANE AND THE SWALLOW OBSERVE THE TIME OF THEIR COMING, retur...
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...
IN THE HEAVEN, i.e. in the air, which is often called heaven, where the birds fly, PSALMS 8:8; compare JEREMIAH 7:33, who possibly observe the fit time by the temperature of the air. KNOWETH HER APPOI...
Jeremiah 8:7 stork H2624 heavens H8064 Knows H3045 (H8804) times H4150 turtledove H8449 swift H5483 swallow H5693 Obs
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 8:7 Our text makes mention of the discrimination of times by the faculty of instinct, and contrasts it favourably with man's want of discrimination, though endowed with reason. I. The birds...
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...
_I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?_ GOD’S INQUISITION 1. That God hath an ear and an eye to our carriage and dispositi...
_But My people know not the Judgment of the Lord._ A SET TIME FOR JUDGMENT The judgment of God is either directive, corrective, or destructive. This last is meant here. It is spoken of the judgment o...
_The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times._ INSTINCT CONTRASTED WITH REASON IN ITS DISCERNMENT OF TIMES I. The birds of passage show in their periodic migrations, their discernment of seas...
_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...
Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 5:12; Jeremiah 5:4; Jeremiah 5:5; Proverbs 6:6;...
Appointed time — The seasons of her going and coming. The judgment — God's vengeance, hovering over Jerusalem, and Judea....