And they said, (c) There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plots, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
(c) As men who had no remorse but were altogether bent to rebellion and to their own selfwill.
Verse Jeremiah 18:12. _THERE IS NO HOPE_] See Jeremiah 2:25....
AND THEY SAID - Better, But they say. IMAGINATION - Or, stubbornness, see Jeremiah 3:17....
CHAPTER 18 The Potter and the Clay _ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _ 2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18) Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
IMAGINATION. stubbornness....
_no hope_ It is too late to turn back now. See on Jeremiah 2:25. _stubbornness_ Cp. ch. Jeremiah 3:17....
C. The Proclamation to the People Jeremiah 18:11-12 TRANSLATION (11) And now speak please unto the men of Judah and unto the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD! Behold, I am about t...
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. THEY SAID, THERE IS NO HOPE - thy threats and exhortations are a...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
AND THEY SAID. — Better, _But they say,_ as of continued action. This was the ever-recurring answer (see Note on Jeremiah 2:25) which they made to the prophet’s pleas. It was the answer of defiance ra...
וְ אָמְר֖וּ נֹואָ֑שׁ כִּֽי ־אַחֲרֵ֤י מַחְשְׁבֹותֵ֨ינוּ֙...
CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1 JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter sitting at work bef...
We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
_Hopes. Chap. ii. 25. Septuagint, "we are valiant men." (Haydock)_...
The Lord himself explains and applies his type of the Potter. And in Jesus how hath the doctrine been fully proved? Surely the Lord can with infinitely more ease create new hearts in his people, and r...
The Prophet, having related that he had denounced on the Jews the vengeance of God, adds now, how proudly they despised his threatenings. And their sin was on this account enhanced, because a hope of...
In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people (Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
AND THEY SAID, THERE IS NO HOPE,.... Or, "but they said" w; not that there was no hope of the grace and mercy of God, upon their repentance and reformation, for that is before declared; but that they...
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. Ver. 12. _And they said, There is no hope._] _a_ See the like desp...
_Now therefore speak to the men of Judah_ The Lord now commands his prophet to make a particular application of the more general doctrine which he had before delivered. _Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I...
THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
And they said, once more stubbornly refusing to heed the warning of the Lord, THERE IS NO HOPE, or, "No use!" BUT WE WILL WALK AFTER OUR OWN DEVICES, following after the wicked designs of their own mi...
11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
THERE IS NO HOPE of us, thou dost but labour in vain in talking to us; for we are resolved to run on in our former race. It cannot be imagined that they should call the imaginations of their own heart...
Jeremiah 18:12 said H559 (H8804) hopeless H2976 (H8737) walk H3212 (H8799) according H310 plans H4284 one...
BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW ‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF TH...
CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
_There is no hope._ HOPE, YET NO HOPE-NO HOPE, YET HOPE There are two phases in spiritual life which well illustrate the deceitfulness of the heart. The first is that described in my first text (Isai...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological considerations. T...
Now in chapter 18: The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
2 Kings 6:33; Deuteronomy 29:19; Ezekiel 37:11; Genesis 6:5; Genesis