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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:9

"The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them? Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for everyone from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet, even unto the priest everyone dealeth falsely. And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace. Were... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:4

Jeremiah 8:4. Shall he turn away— Or he that turneth away, shall he not return? Houbigant renders it, Shall they who are alienated never return? The similitude, says he, is taken from a man who falls by neglect, but afterward raises himself; and from one who departs from another in passion, but afterwards is reconciled; which was not the case with the Jews who fell by idolatry, but did not arise; who departed from their God, but returned not to him. See the next verses. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:7

Jeremiah 8:7. Yea, the stork in the heaven— "These birds know by natural instinct the seasons when to return to the places of their former abode; whereas this people never think of returning to their former and only true God." The sacred writers often send men to the brute creation for instruction, in order to upbraid their stupidity. See particularly Isa 1:3 and Scheuchzer's Physique Sacree, tom. 7: p. 297 for an account of these birds of passage. Houbigant renders the last clause, But my... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:13

Jeremiah 8:13. I will surely consume then, &c.— I was about to gather them, saith the Lord, but there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree; and the leaves themselves have faded: they have dissipated those things which I gave them. Houb. Instead of, And the things, &c. we may read, And what strength there is in them, shall pass away, &c. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:4

4. "Is it not a natural instinct, that if one falls, he rises again; if one turns away (that is, wanders from the way), he will return to the point from which he wandered? Why then does not Jerusalem do so?" He plays on the double sense of return; literal and metaphorical (Jeremiah 3:12; Jeremiah 4:1). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:5

5. slidden . . . backsliding—rather, as the Hebrew is the same as in :-, to which this verse refers, "turned away with a perpetual turning away." perpetual—in contrast to the "arise" ("rise again," :-). refuse to return—in contrast to, "shall he . . . not return" (Jeremiah 8:4; Jeremiah 5:3). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:6

6. spake not aright—that is, not so as penitently to confess that they acted wrong. Compare what follows. every one . . . his course—The Keri reads "course," but the Chetib, "courses." "They persevere in the courses whatever they have once entered on." Their wicked ways were diversified. horse rusheth—literally, "pours himself forth," as water that has burst its embankment. The mad rapidity of the war horse is the point of comparison ( :-). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:7

7. The instinct of the migratory birds leads them with unfailing regularity to return every spring from their winter abodes in summer climes ( :-); but God's people will not return to Him even when the winter of His wrath is past, and He invites them back to the spring of His favor. in the heaven—emphatical. The birds whose very element is the air, in which they are never at rest, yet show a steady sagacity, which God's people do not. times—namely, of migrating, and of returning. my people—This... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:8

8. law . . . with us— ( :-). Possessing the law, on which they prided themselves, the Jews might have become the wisest of nations; but by their neglecting its precepts, the law became given "in vain," as far as they were concerned. scribes—copyists. "In vain" copies were multiplied. MAURER translates, "The false pen of the scribes hath converted it [the law] into a lie." See Margin, which agrees with Vulgate. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:9

9. dismayed—confounded. what wisdom—literally, "the wisdom of what?" that is, "wisdom in what respect?" the Word of the Lord being the only true source of wisdom (Psalms 119:98-100; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10). read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:9

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:7

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:13

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:4

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:5

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:7

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:8

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:9

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