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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-21

Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a figure, to make it the more taken notice of and the more affecting (Jer. 13:12): Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine; that is, those that by their sins have made themselves vessels of wrath fitted to destruction shall be filled with the wrath of God as a bottle is with wine; and, as every vessel of mercy prepared for glory shall... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God ,.... By confessing sin unto him; by humiliation for it before him; by believing what he says, hearkening to his word, and obeying his commands, and living to his honour and glory; see Joshua 7:19 , especially by believing in Christ, the true God, and true Messiah, embracing his Gospel, and his ordinances: before he cause darkness ; before the Lord brings on the dark dispensation threatened, the calamity before spoken of; repent while space is given,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to - God - Confess your sins and turn to him, that these sore evils may be averted. While ye look for light - While ye expect prosperity, he turned it into the shadow of death - sent you adversity of the most distressing and ruinous kind. Stumble upon the dark mountains - Before you meet with those great obstacles, which, having no light - no proper understanding in the matter, ye shall be utterly unable to surmount. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:16

Verse 16 Jeremiah pursues the subject, which we began to explain yesterday, for he saw that the Jews were but little moved by what he taught them. He bid them. to regard what he said as coming from God, and told them that they could by no means succeed by their pride. For the same purpose he now adds, Give glory to Jehovah your God To give glory to God is elsewhere taken for confessing the truth in his name; for when Joshua abjured Achan, he used these words, “Give glory to God, my son;” that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:15-16

A demand for the timely giving of what is due to Jehovah. It will be observed that the previous verses of this chapter set forth the doom of Jehovah's apostate people by two very expressive figures. There is the figure of the girdle, marred and become good for nothing by lying so long in the damp recess of the rock. There is also the figure of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, from those high in station down to the common people, every one of them become as it were a living wine-skin, filled... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:15-19

An admonition to seize upon the only means of escape. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory , etc. Let your tribute to your King be that of humble submission to his will. The precise application of the phrase must be derived from the context (comp. Joshua 7:19 ; Malachi 2:2 ). Upon the dark mountains ; rather, upon mountains of twilight . A "mountain" is an image of a great obstacle ( Zechariah 4:7 ; Matthew 21:21 ). As Judah is walking along, the hitherto even tenor of his way gives place to huge mountains wrapped in an impenetrable dusk, over which he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:16

Darkness. I. SIN PLUNGES THE SOUL INTO DARKNESS . "Light is sown for the righteous " ( Psalms 97:11 ). The darkness of evil thoughts and an evil will throws its shadow out on the world, and ultimately brings gloom over the whole of life. 1. This darkness is distressing . The benighted feel a horror of great darkness falling upon them amid the wild and lonely mountains. When God withdraws the sunshine of his grace this mournful condition must be the experience of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:16

Days of grace and how they should be spent The mind of the prophet was full of the doom which he had predicted, and he was apprehensive of the spiritual results of exile and confusion with heathen nations. The people themselves, however, did not exhibit any such anxiety. They treated his words as idle tales, or as the expression of ill nature and enmity. The relation of these two is a typical one. From age to age the preacher of righteousness urges his pleas and presses for immediate... read more

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