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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:5-31

A revelation of grievous purport has suddenly reached the prophet. See how the foe draws nearer and nearer, and how alarm drives the scattered population to seek for refuge in the fortified cities. Can such be the issue of the promises of peace with which Jehovah has encouraged his people? Such are the contents of the first paragraph ( Jeremiah 4:5-10 ). Next,-in short, detached figures the prophet sets forth the sin of the people and its punishment. Like a scorching simoom is the former;... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:5-31

The proclamation of woe. Such is the character of this entire section, and we observe upon this proclamation— I. THAT , LIKE ALL SUCH , IT IS PROMPTED BY DIVINE LOVE . The most fearful judgments contained in the whole Bible are those denounced by our Lord Jesus Christ. The most awful words ever spoken are those which proceeded out of the mouth of him at whose graciousness all-men wondered. It is evident, therefore, that they were the utterances, as is this one here,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:11-13

The uses of the wind. Not all the uses of the wind are set forth here, but enough is mentioned to remind us how God can turn a beneficial agent into a destructive one very rapidly and decisively. The force Of the unquenchable fire has already been spoken of ( Jeremiah 4:4 ); and it is a sufficiently dreadful thought that fire, so genial, so useful, with such a place in the house, and—so far as Israel was concerned—such a place in the service of God, should thus have become, in the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:12

Even a full wind from those places . The passage is obscure, but this is a very possible rendering. "Full," equivalent to "violent;" "those (places)," equivalent to the bare hills spoken of in Jeremiah 4:11 . Keil and Payne Smith, however, render, "a fuller wind than those," i . e . a more violent wind than those which serve for winnowing the corn; while Hitzig (see on Jeremiah 4:11 ) supposes "from those" to mean the persons described in Jeremiah 4:11 as "the daughter of my... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:13

He shall come up as clouds , etc. It is needless to name the subject; who can it be but the host of Jehovah's warlike instruments? (For the first figure, comp. Ezekiel 38:16 ; for the second, Isaiah 5:28 ; Isaiah 66:15 ; and for the third, Habakkuk 1:8 ; Deuteronomy 28:49 .) Woe unto us ! etc. The cry of lamentation of the Jews (comp. Jeremiah 4:20 ; Jeremiah 9:18 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

Thy vain thoughts . The phrase specially belongs to sins against one's neighbor—such sins as are described in Jeremiah 7:5-9 (Keil). "Vain" should rather be "wicked" (immoral); the root-meaning of the noun is "a breath" (the symbol of material or moral emptiness). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

The cleansing of the heart a necessary condition of salvation. I. SALVATION IS PROMISED ON THE SIMPLEST POSSIBLE CONDITIONS . The very mention of conditions suggests difficulties, delays, barriers. But the only conditions required are in our own power, are simply such as are necessary to make the reception of the salvation of God possible to us, and do not refer to the source of it. We are not to save ourselves, not to purchase nor to merit salvation, but only to be in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

Vain thoughts. I. THE LIFE OF EVERY MAN IS GOVERENED BY HIS THOUGHTS . "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" ( Proverbs 23:7 ). True as it is that the essential moral quality of the man will always determine the order of his thinking, the converse also is equally true. Thought is the formative principle of all personal life—kindles feeling, touches the springs of purpose, guides the course of moral action. What are character and conduct but the definite... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

"O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved." The loving charge of the Great Searcher of hearts. The text shows us— I. GOD INTENSELY DESIRING MAN 'S SALVATION . This is evident from the pleading tone of the text. It is like the pathetic cry of the Savior over the same Jerusalem, when her people rejected him. And this Divine distress over the sinner's rejection of salvation, or in any wise missing of it, is attested not by any one Scripture... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

Fain thoughts. "How long shall," etc.? I. THEY ARE THE PROLIFIC SOURCE AND CAUSE OF ALL WICKEDNESS . "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." St. Paul, desiring all things lovely and of good report, all that has praise and virtue, to abound in the disciples of Christ, bids them "think on these things" ( Philippians 4:1-23 .). Therefore vain thoughts must lead to and produce wickedness. "They are the spawn of the evil heart, from which all other wickedness is... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:5-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:5-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:11-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:14

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