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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. When God’s judgments are being experienced, it is high time to repent. But these people did not think of such a thing, they were not half so sensible as migratory...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How do ye say, we are wise,.... Which they were continually boasting of, though they were ignorant of the judgment of the Lord, and were more stupid than the stork, turtle, crane, and swallow: and the law of the Lord is with us? this was the foundation of their boast, because the law was given to them, and not to the nations of the world, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? This test may serve as a motto for some, in these days, who believe themselves to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. What! do they talk like that, the people who do not know and do not regard God’s judgments, do they talk in such a style as that? Ah, yes! Some of the most wicked of them have a so-called “religion” upon which they still...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The wise men are ashamed,.... Of the wisdom of which they boasted, when it would appear to be folly, and unprofitable to them: they are dismayed and taken; frightened at the calamities coming upon them, and taken as in a snare, as the wise sometimes are in their own craftiness, Job 5:13. Lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; sent by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what wisdom is in them? See God’s judgment upon a man wise in his own conceit. You hear every now and then, of some wonderfully learned, philosophic, scientific man, and many folk are frightened because he is an infidel. He does not possess true...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore will I give their wives unto others,.... To strangers, to the Gentiles; than which nothing could be more disagreeable to them, or a sorer punishment, of a temporal one: and their fields to them that shall inherit them; or, to the heirs (i); other and new ones; and who should possess them as if they were the true and rightful heirs of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them; for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people,.... [See comments on Jeremiah 6:14], [See comments on Jeremiah 6:15].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: What a striking expression is this! To what a condition of shameless obstinacy have men’s minds been brought when it can be said of them, “They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.” The very power to be ashamed was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. Why do we sit still? assemble...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. They had gone so far that they could not blush. It is a dreadful thing when a man has lost the very sense of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will surely consume them, saith the Lord,.... Or, "gathering I will gather them" (k); into some one place, the city of Jerusalem, and there destroy them. The word is, לשון כלייה, expressive of consumption and destruction, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech observe; and so the Targum, "destroying I will destroy them, saith the Lord.'' There shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. They would not recognize the Giver, so the gift should be taken away from them. Now the people dwelling in the country villages begin to be alarmed...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Why do we sit still?.... In the country, where were barrenness and want of provisions; in the villages and unwalled towns, where they were exposed to the spoils and ravages of the enemy. These words, with what follow, are the words of the prophet, in the language of the Israelites, as Kimchi observes. Assemble yourselves; this is the gathering...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD, We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! The snorting of his horses...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We looked for peace,.... Outward prosperity, affluence of temporal blessings, peace with enemies, and safety from them, which the false prophets had given them reason to expect; or which last they concluded and hoped for, from their being in the defenced cities: but no good came; they were disappointed in their expectation; the good that was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan,.... That is, was heard at Jerusalem. It seems to be a hyperbolical expression, showing the certainty of the coming of the Assyrian monarch and his army, to invade Judea, and besiege Jerusalem; the news of which was brought from Dan, which lay in the further part of the land; see Jeremiah 4:15, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,.... The Chaldeans, comparable to these noxious and hurtful creatures, because of the mischief they should do unto them. The Targum is, "for, lo, I will raise up against you people that kill as the destroying serpents.'' These were raised up by the Lord, and sent by him, just as he sent...