I hearkened and heard, [but] they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every (d) one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.
(d) They are full of hypocrisy, and everyone follows his own fantasy without any consideration.
Verse Jeremiah 8:6. _AS THE HORSE RUSHETH INTO THE BATTLE._] This strongly marks the unthinking, careless desperation of their conduct....
I HEARKENED AND HEARD - God, before passing sentence, carefully listens to the words of the people. Compare Genesis 11:5, where the divine judgment is preceded by the Almighty going down to see the to...
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...
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...
_I_ Jeremiah or Jehovah through him. _hearkened and heard_ implying an anxiety to give every chance of amendment. _turneth to_ better, as mg., _turneth away in_. _rusheth headlong_ lit. _overflowet...
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...
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
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. SPAKE NOT A...
8:6 to (a-29) Or 'turneth away in.'...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
AS THE HORSE, etc.] meaning, an eager plunge into wrongdoing....
הִקְשַׁ֤בְתִּי וָֽ אֶשְׁמָע֙ לֹוא ־כֵ֣ן יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ...
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...
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...
These words may be considered as spoken by God himself, — that he from heaven examined the state of the people; but it is more suitable to regard them as spoken by the Prophet; for he was placed, as i...
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...
I HEARKENED AND HEARD,.... These are either, the words of the prophet, as Kimchi and Abarbinel think; who listened and attended to, and made his observations upon, the words and actions, conduct and b...
I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Ver. 6. _I h...
_Moreover, thou shalt say_, &c. The prophet is here directed to set before the Jews the unreasonableness and folly of their impenitence, which was the thing that brought this ruin upon them. And he re...
I hearkened and heard, listening carefully for some evidence of repentance, BUT THEY SPAKE NOT ARIGHT, they were far from confessing any wrong on their part; NO MAN REPENTED HIM OF HIS WICKEDNESS, SAY...
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...
AND HEARD, i.e. that I might hear; the words rather of God than of the prophet, which the continuance of the speech seems to show in the next verse, in the close whereof it is plain that God speaks, e...
Jeremiah 8:6 listened H7181 (H8689) heard H8085 (H8799) speak H1696 (H8762) man H376 repented H5162 ...
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...
REPENTED (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
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...
_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...
2 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 18:28; Ezekiel 22:30; Haggai 1:5; Haggai 1:7;...
I — God...