What does Jeremiah 5:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
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...
SHALL. NOT VISIT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ MY SOUL. I Myself, for emphasis. Hebrew. _nephesh._ Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ BE AVENGED. avenge herself. Compare Jeremiah 5:29; Jeremiah...
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...
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (; ; , "So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
הַֽ עַל ־אֵ֥לֶּה לֹוא ־אֶפְקֹ֖ד נְאֻם ־יְהֹוָ֑ה וְ אִם֙ בְּ גֹ֣וי אֲשֶׁר ־כָּ זֶ֔ה...
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...
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,...
God again holds, as it were, a conference with them, and for this purpose, — that he might check all their complaints and close their mouths, lest they should object and say, that they were too severe...
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...
SHALL I NOT VISIT FOR THESE THINGS? SAITH THE LORD,.... For such adulteries and lasciviousness, and that in a way of punishment. The Targum adds, "to bring evil upon them;'' the evil of punishment f...
Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Ver. 9. _Shall I not visit for these things?_] _i.e., _ Shall I not take cognizance of...
_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...
VISIT, i.e. punish, PSALMS 89:32. Should I connive at such things, the wicked would say, I did not see them, or take notice of them, PSALMS 50:21, much to the same purpose with JEREMIAH 5:7, beginning...
Jeremiah 5:9 punish H6485 (H8799) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 I H5315 avenge H5358 (H8691) nation H1471 I not visit - Jeremiah 5:29, Jeremiah 9:9, Jeremiah 23:2; Lamentations 4:22;...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:43; Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 7:9; Hosea 2:13; Hosea 8:13; Isaiah 1:24; Jeremiah 23:2; Jeremiah 44:22;...