Jeremiah 5:8
What meaning of the jeremiah 5:8 in the Bible?
What does Jeremiah 5:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife."
What does Jeremiah 5:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife."
Verse Jeremiah 5:8. _AFTER HIS NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE._] This may have been _literally_ true, as the abominations of idolatry, in which they were so deeply practised, would necessarily produce such a state...
IN THE MORNING - Render, they rove about. Some prefer, “(horses) from Mesech.”...
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...
THE SINS OF JERUSALEM. Jeremiah is bidden to seek even one man in Jerusalem, for whose sake Yahweh may spare the city (_cf._ Genesis 18:16), one man of justice and faithfulness (_mg.) ;_ even the oath...
IN THE MORNING: i.e. roaming at large....
The Hebrew of the first clause is obscure. The reading "fed horses," which is to be preferred, represents the consonants of MT. (K'thibh), though the verb which they form is found elsewhere only in co...
2. _Sexual impurity_ (Jeremiah 5:7-9) TRANSLATION (7) Wherefore should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and have sworn by no-gods; and when I fed them, then they committed adultery and...
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. IN THE MORNING - (Isaiah 5:11). 'Rising early in the morning' is a phrase for unceasing eagerness in any pursui...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
THEY WERE AS FED HORSES IN THE MORNING. — Better, _As fed stallion horses they rove about._ The animal passion is taken, as in Ezekiel 23:20, (1) as answering to the same passion in man; (2) as symbol...
סוּסִ֥ים מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים מַשְׁכִּ֣ים הָי֑וּ אִ֛ישׁ אֶל ־אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ יִצְהָֽלוּ׃...
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of prophecy, two thing...
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...
_Stallions. Hebrew mashcim, (Haydock) "stretching out," as others translate, Ezechiel xxiii. 20. (St. Jerome) --- The horse is the most intemperate of all animals but man. (Aristotle, Hist. vi. 22.)_...
How striking the expostulation? How unanswerably just the appeal? Do not fail to observe, Reader, that the Lord doth not simply speak of one nation, or of another, but it is this nation, this people,...
Jeremiah comes now, I think, to the second table, and mentions one kind of evil; but his object was to shew that there was no chastity, no faithfulness, no honesty in that people. He therefore compare...
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 t...
THEY WERE AS FED HORSES IN THE MORNING,.... Adulterers are compared to horses, because they are very salacious and lustful creatures; wherefore the Septuagint renders the word: "horses are become mad...
They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. Ver. 8. _They were as fed horses,_] _a_ As stallions and stone horses, that are ιππομανεις, mare mad, as the Se...
_How shall I pardon thee for this?_ How canst thou expect that the holy God, the righteous Governor and Judge of the world, should connive at, or bear with, such iniquitous conduct in his intelligent...
FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
1-9 None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises. The poor were ignorant, and therefore they were wicked. Wha...
OLBGrk; FED HORSES, to note the greatness and unruliness of their lust, pampered horses being most wanton, like that DEUTERONOMY 32:15. IN THE MORNING: it is questioned whether morning relates to hors...
Jeremiah 5:8 well-fed H2109 (H8716) lusty H7904 (H8688) stallions H5483 one H376 neighed H6670 (H8799) neighbors H7453 wife H802 every one - Jeremiah 13:27; Genesis 39:9; Exodus 20:14, Exod
YHWH GIVES HIS REASONS WHY JERUSALEM WILL NOT BE PARDONED AND JEREMIAH MAKES A VAIN SEARCH FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN (JEREMIAH 5:1). YHWH now vindicates His decision to bring inevitable judgment. He assures...
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...
_Run ye. .. and see. .. if ye can find a man._ A MAN; OR, THE DIVINE IDEAL UNREALISED I. The Divine idea of a man. One “that executeth Judgment, that seeketh the truth.” This involves-- 1. A righte...
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 Samuel 11:2; Deuteronomy 5:18; Deuteronomy 5:21; Exodus 20:14; Exodus 20:17; Genesis 39:9; Jeremiah 13:27; Job 31:9; Matthew 5:27; Matt