Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 5:14
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in (n) thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
(n) Meaning, Jeremiah.
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in (n) thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
(n) Meaning, Jeremiah.
Verse Jeremiah 5:14. _BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS WORD_] Because ye thus treat my message, "I will make my words in thy mouth fire." They have said _they are but air_; but I will make them _fire_, and a _fi...
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 ...
THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ the Elohim of Zebaioth. Occurs in Jeremiah only here, Jeremiah 15:16; Jeremiah 35:17. and Jeremiah 49:5....
See summary at beginning of section....
"Ye" (the people) "thy" (Jeremiah's). Cp. Jeremiah 23:39....
3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18) TRANSLATION (10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For the house...
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS WORD. H...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. — The solemn name (_Jehovah Elohim Zebaoth_) used for the second time in Jeremiah’s teaching (Jeremiah 2:19). The message is partly to the people — “Because _ye_ speak this word...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י צְבָאֹ֔ות...
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...
_Fire. Thou shalt declare their impending ruin._...
Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, I will sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, be dedicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and glo...
God shews here how intolerable to him was their wantonness in despising the prophets, through whom he would have himself attended to. Though Christ did not refer to this passage, when he said, “He wh...
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...
WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS WORD,.... That it is not the Lord; it is not he that speaks; it is no prophecy of him, and therefore shall become wind, and come to no...
_Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them._ Ver. 14. _Because ye speak th...
_Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts_ The prophet now, in the name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels, ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculat...
Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the mighty Captain of the heavenly armies, BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS WORD, BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH FIRE, Jeremiah being given a sharp and sca...
FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD: these vile wretches having now done speaking, God begins to speak; and because they had thus slighted the prophet, and God speaking by him, (as in the next words, BECAUS...
Jeremiah 5:14 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 hosts H6635 speak H1696 (H8763) word H1697 make...
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...
YHWH CALLS ON HIS CHAMPION, WHOSE GREAT MIGHT HE MAKES CLEAR, IN ORDER THAT HIS FORCES MIGHT DENUDE JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR TREACHERY TOWARDS HIM (JEREMIAH 5:10). The instrument of YHWH's judgment is c...
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...
_I will make My words in thy mouth fire._ THE POTENTIAL WORD Three elements of the power of the Gospel are here found. I. The I will of the Almighty. That will is an ocean deep and wide as eternity...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 5:14 GOD OF HOSTS is a title often used to describe God as a judge (Isaiah 3:1;...
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...
2 Kings 1:10; Hosea 6:5; Jeremiah 1:9; Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 28:1
It — The Chaldean army, shall consume and eat them up like fire....