jeremiah-17:10,-isaiah-66:2-niv

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 17:5-11

The Cursings And The Blessings On Individuals (Jeremiah 17:5-11 ). But not all of Judah will come under YHWH’s anger. Only those (the huge majority) who have turned from Him and forsaken Him and are under the curses described in Leviticus 26:0; Deuteronomy 28 ff. For them there will be barrenness and emptiness. But provision had to be made for those comparatively few who did truly respond to YHWH, and for them there is promised blessing and fruitfulness. They will flourish in the midst of the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 17:1-18

Jeremiah 16:1 to Jeremiah 17:18 . The Coming Distress a Penalty for Sin.— The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows ( cf. 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be too common even for due mourning and burial. He is to stand aloof from the ordinary expressions of grief ( Jeremiah 16:5-Judges :) or social joy ( Jeremiah 16:8 f.; cf. Jeremiah 7:34), as a sign that Yahweh will make both to cease in the universal disaster. The reason for this great suffering... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 17:10

Lest these hypocrites should pretend that their hearts were not departed from God, or should say, Who then can judge us if none knoweth the heart? saith God, Though no creature knoweth the heart of another fellow creature, yet I know the hearts of all creatures, I search the secret thoughts, and counsels, and designs of all my creatures; for I will judge them according to their thoughts and the secret motions and affections of their souls, according to all their ways, and the fruit of their... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 17:1-27

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter. Jeremiah 17:1-18 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [Keil seems alone in suggesting that this section “may very well be joined with the preceding general reflections as to the springs of mischief and of well-being; inasmuch as it shows how the way of safety appointed to the people lies in keeping the decalogue, as exemplified in one of its fundamental... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Jeremiah 17:10

DISCOURSE: 1057GOD’S RULE OF JUDGMENTJeremiah 17:10. I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.THE evil of the human heart is far greater than can be fully conceived either by men or angels. None but God himself can explore the depths of iniquity that are within it [Note: ver. 9.]. But He will judge the world in righteousness at the last day; and consequently must have access to the inmost recesses of the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:1-27

Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond ( Jeremiah 17:1 ):Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in iron.it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 17:1-27

Jeremiah 17:1 . The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron. Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of Baal. The word altars being plural indicates that idolatrous altars are understood, for the Lord allowed but of one altar. Jeremiah 17:3 . Oh my mountain in the field. The temple was situate on a mountain, and is called the holy mountain, and the mountain of the Lord’s house. It here stands... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 17:10

Jeremiah 17:10I the Lord search the heart.God, the inspector of the heartI. The description given of the human heart.1. “The heart is deceitful above all things.” There is scarcely a truth, for instance, revealed in the Bible, which it has not, at one time or other, led some men to call in question. But the deceitfulness of the heart appears nowhere, perhaps, so striking as in the case of many who sit under the faithful ministry of the Gospel, or are visited with some severe attack of sickness.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 17:10

Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings. Ver. 10. I the Lord search the heart. ] Be it never so full of shifts and fetches, I cannot be deceived in it. The watchmaker must needs know every turning and winding in the watch. God is the heart maker and the heart mender; neither is there any creature, no, not any creature of the heart, that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 17:10

the Lord: Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 20:12, 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 29:17, 2 Chronicles 6:30, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Proverbs 17:3, John 2:25, Romans 8:27, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23 even: Jeremiah 32:19, Psalms 62:12, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:6-Ruth :, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 22:12 fruit: Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 32:19, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Micah 7:13, Romans 6:21, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8 ... read more