CONTENTS Jeremiah in this Chapter is addressing the other nations around, at the command of God, to tell them of their shortly being subject to the King of Babylon. Towards the close of the Chapter, the Prophet admonisheth the King of Judah to the same.... [ Continue Reading ]
The time of this prophecy is noted, but it should seem, that though the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah then, he did pot deliver it till a considerable space after, for Jekoiakim's reign at the beginning, was many years before Zedekiah. But the doctrine is the same. Let the Reader observe from wha... [ Continue Reading ]
I only detain the Reader on these verses to remark, how in all ages, the Church of God hath been infested by false prophets. With what caution ought men to hear!... [ Continue Reading ]
This must have been a painful service to Jeremiah, to go from one to another, and with messages of evil. All God's servants have done the same. Ezekiel 2:6; Ezekiel 2:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Both Prophets and Priests are deceived, and the Lord seems to have made his servant Jeremiah a wonder of truth in the midst of falsehood. Is it not so very often now? Are there not always those who speak smooth things, who prophecy deceits? Oh! for the Lord God of the Prophets to be the teacher of h... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS PAUSE Reader! and behold the wretched state of false prophets! for the wretched hire of this world's favor, and to please men, what will they not do. Though the Lord sent his faithful servant Jeremiah, both to the nations around and to Judah, with assurance that the King of Babylon shoul... [ Continue Reading ]