Jeremiah 6:8 - Exposition

Be thou instructed ; rather, Let thyself be corrected (Authorized Version misses the sense, a very important one, of the conjugation, which is Nifal tolerativum (comp. Psalms 2:10 ; Isaiah 53:12 ). The phrase equivalent to "receive correction" ( Jeremiah 2:30 ; Jeremiah 5:3 ), and means to accept the warning conveyed in the Divine chastisement. Lest my soul, etc.; rather, lest my soul be rent from thee (Authorized Version renders the same verb in Ezekiel 23:17 , "be alienated").