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
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