Jeremiah 5:24

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. RAIN, BOTH THE FORMER AND THE LATTER, IN HIS SEASON - the "former" falls from the middle of October to the beginning of December. The "latter," or spring rain in Palestine, falls before harvest in March and April, and is essential for ripening the crops (; .) THE APPOINTED WEEKS OF THE HARVEST - the seven weeks between Passover and Pentecost beginning on the 16th of Nisan (). By God's special providence no rain fell in Palestine during the harvest weeks, so that harvest work went on without interru...

The Prophet in other words proves here that the _Jews _had been justly charged with perverseness: he says, that it did not come to their minds, that they did not think, to fear God. We hence see that all that is said is designed to shew, that the people were no less senseless and stupid, than if they were lifeless elements; nay, that there was more stupidity and more furious madness in their hearts than in any created thing. To _say in the heart _means in Hebrew to weigh, to consider. We should say in Latin, “It did not come to their minds,” (_non venit illis in mentem;_) that is, “Have they not been so void of common sense, that this thought did not come to their minds, or did not occur to them, _Let us fear the Lord? _” And here he takes away every pretense of ignorance, that they might not object and say, that they did not worship God through error or want of knowledge: “But ye had ey...

19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto them, let them think of their sins. The restless waves obeyed the Divine decree, that they should not pass the sandy shores, which were as much a restraint as lofty mountains; but they burst all restraints of God's law, and were wholly gone into wickedness. Neither did they consider their interest. While the Lord, year after year, reserves to us the appointed weeks of harvest, men live on his bounty; yet they transgress against him. Sin deprives us of God's blessings; it makes the heaven as brass, and the earth as iron. Certainly the things of this world are not the best things; and we are not to think, that, because evil men prosper, God allows their practices. Though sentence against evil w...

Verse Jeremiah 5:24. _GIVETH RAIN, BOTH THE FORMER AND THE LATTER_] Jeremiah 3:3. _THE APPOINTED WEEKS OF THE HARVEST._] As the early rains fell in the northern parts of Judea about the end of _September_, in the _civil year_ of the Hebrews, so the _latter rains_ fell before harvest, in the months of _March_ and _April_. The appointed weeks of the harvest were those which fell between the _passover_ and _pentecost_. In the southern parts the harvest was earlier than in the northern. Dr. _Blayney_ translates, "A sufficiency of the appointed things of harvest he secureth to us." If the word שבעת weeks, be read with a ש _sin_ instead of a ש _shin_, it will signify _fulness_ or _sufficiency_; and thus

Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root. Jeremiah 5:22 The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has imposed upon it laws whi

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 sections or strophes. JEREMIAH 5:1 Gladly would Jehovah pardon, if his people showed but a gleam of sound morality. But they are all deaf to the warning voice—the Law of God is flagrantly violated. In particular the marriage tie, as well the typical one between man and woman as the anti-typical between the people and its God, is openly disregarded (comp. Hosea 4:1; Micah 7:2; Isaiah 64:6,...

NEITHER SAY IN THEIR HEART,.... It came not into their mind, they never once thought of it, namely, of what follows, LET US NOW FEAR THE LORD OUR GOD; they were not influenced and engaged to the fear of God, neither by his power in the preceding instance, nor by his goodness in the following one: THAT GIVETH RAIN; in common, all the year round, at proper times, for the use of men and beasts. This is a pure gift of God, and an instance of his goodness, and is peculiar to him, what none of the gods of the Gentiles could give, Jeremiah 14:22: BOTH THE FORMER AND THE LATER, IN HIS SEASON; there were two particular seasons in the year in which the land of Israel had rain; the one was in the month Marchesvan, answering to part of October and part of November, and this was the former rain, after the seed was sown in the earth; and the

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 treacherously against me, saith the LORD. They have belied the LORD,_ They have made it out as though God himself were a liar. They have contradicted him whose word is the truth itself. They have despised his threatenings, they have refused his invitations, they have disbelieved his promises: «they have belied the Lord,» Jeremiah 5:12. And said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because y

FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

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 (Jeremiah 5:30) Jeremiah 5:1. So degenerate had the inhabitants of Jerusalem become that the Lord promised if but one man could be found in the city who executed judgment and sought the truth, He would pardon Jerusalem. It was a general apostasy. A similar apostasy is predicted for the end of our age. “Nevertheless when the Son of Man