Jeremiah 8:1-22

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 8:17

8:17 For, behold, I will {m} send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.(m) God threatens to send the Babylonians among them who will utterly destroy them in such sort, as by no means they will escape. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 8:18

8:18 [When] I would {n} comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.(n) Read Jeremiah 4:19 . read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 8:19

8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a distant country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why {o} have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with foreign vanities?(o) Thus the Lord speaks. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 8:20

8:20 The {p} harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.(p) The people wonder that they have for so long a time looked for comfort in vain. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 8:21

8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I {q} hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.(q) The prophet speaks this. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 8:22

8:22 [Is there] no balm {r} in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?(r) Meaning,that no man’s help or means could save them: for in Gilead was precious balm, Jeremiah 46:11 or else deriding the vain confidence of the people, who looked to their priests for help, who would have been the physicians of their soul, and dwelt at Gilead, Hosea 6:8 . read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-22

PERSECUTED IN HIS HOME TOWN The length of this lesson may alarm, but preparation for it only requires the reading of the chapters two or three times. One who has gone through Isaiah will soon catch the drift of the Spirit’s teaching and be able to break up the chapters into separate discourses and the discourses into their various themes. The main object of the lesson is to dwell on the prophet’s personal experience in his home town which is reached in the closing chapters. It is thought... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Jeremiah 8:1-22

Accusations and Penalties Jeremiah 8-9 These chapters are full of accusation. The point is, that the accusation was not directed against heathen nations; it is hurled against the chosen of God. There is a certain kind of accusation in which there is comfort. Where the indictment is severe, it is evident that the expectation has been high, and God never expects much except where he has sown much. Therefore it may come to pass that the very gravity and poignancy of the accusation may be... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Jeremiah 8:20

Harvest Home Jer 8:20 Then no change can be made now "The harvest is past. We should like to increase it, we cannot "The harvest: is past." Then there are measured opportunities in life, times of limitation, times of beginning and ending. Even now there are little circles not complete. The universe is a circle, eternity is a circle, infinity is a circle; these can never be completed, they live in continual progress towards self-completion: but there are little circles, small as wedding-rings,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1

CONTENTS The Prophet is going on with the same Sermon, in the same strain and on the same subject. The Chapter is made up of reproof and lamentation. read more

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