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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:3

Fallow ground. Such an analogy as this reminds us that the materials of the highest wisdom are always lying close within our reach, sometimes in very unlikely places. The world without is a mirror in which we see our own moral life and the laws that govern it reflected. Air, earth, and sea are full of teachers whom God has sent to rebuke in us all that is false and evil, and lead us into all that is true and good. The prophet, in the text, does but give an articulate voice to the silent... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:3

Thoroughness in spiritual culture. There is put before us here an agricultural figure, which our observation of fallow ground in England, at present, fails to give us the power of understanding. When we look at an English ploughman turning a piece of meadowland into arable, there does not seem anything very difficult about his work. Why, then, should breaking up the fallow ground be so hard? Why should this be reckoned an appropriate figure for something evidently difficult, something, it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:3-4

The peril of profession without possession of real religion. This will be shown if we consider— I. THE SCENE HERE PRESENTED TO US . 1. The fallow ground; that is, ground unoccupied, free. Not hardened, as the wayside (cf. Matthew 13:1-58 .); not shallow-soiled, as the stony ground; not poor and barren, but capable of yielding rich return. 2. Sowers about to cast in seed—good seed. 3. A stern prohibition of their work. They are commanded to "sow not." A reason... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord . A significant passage. All the Jews were circumcised, but not all were "circumcised to the Lord." There were but too many who were "circumcised in uncircumcision" ( Jeremiah 9:25 ), and the prophet sternly reduces ouch circumcision to the level of the heathenish rite of cutting off the hair ( Jeremiah 9:26 ; comp. Herod. 3.8). Jeremiah seems to have been specially anxious to counteract a merely formal, ritualistic notion of circumcision, sharing in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 4:3

To the men - To each man “of Judah.” They are summoned individually to repentance.Break up - literally, Fallow for you a fallow ground, i. e., do not sow the seeds of repentance in unfit soil, but just as the farmer prepares the ground, by clearing it of weeds, and exposing it to the sun and air, before entrusting to it the seed, so must you regard repentance as a serious matter, requiring forethought, and anxious labor. To sow in unfallowed ground was practically to sow on land full of thorns. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 4:4

See the Deuteronomy 10:16 note. Nature, such as it is in itself, unconsecrated to God, is to be removed from our inner selves, that a new and spiritual nature may take its place.Lest my fury ... - God is long-suffering, but unless this change take place, the time of judgment must at length come to all as it came to Jerusalem - “like fire” (compare 1 Corinthians 3:13; Philippians 2:12-13).Jeremiah 4:5-6:30 “God’s Judgment upon the Unrepentant”A group of prophecies now commences, extending to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 4:3-4

Jeremiah 4:3-4. For thus saith the Lord The prophet now addresses himself to the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, and exhorts them to repentance and reformation in metaphorical language. Break up your fallow ground, &c. That is, purge and purify the field of your hearts, by godly sorrow for your sins, and hatred to them; prepare your hearts for receiving the seed of the divine word, by making them soft, tender, and pliable, fit to believe and obey it. And sow not among thorns ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:1-4

Repentance means genuine change (3:19-4:4)God wanted the relationship between him and his people to be like that between a father and a son, or between a husband and a wife. But his people have been rebellious and unfaithful (19-20). In hope, the prophet pictures the people turning from their false worship at Baal’s high places and crying out to God for forgiveness. In response God promises that if they truly repent, he will forgive them and heal them (21-22a).The people then turn to God and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 4:3

and Jerusalem. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and the inhabitants of Jerusalem", as in Jeremiah 4:4 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10:16 ; Deuteronomy 30:6 ). Spiritual circumcision in the O.T. is confined to these three passages. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:3-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 4:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 4:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 4:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 4:3-4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:1-4

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 4:3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 4:4

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