Jeremiah 5:7 ASV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:1-19

Sins of Jerusalem and Judah (5:1-19)A search of Jerusalem reveals that the city is wholly corrupt. Injustice and selfishness abound. People claim they belong to God and they swear oaths by his name, but they remain untouched by the lessons he is trying to teach them (5:1-3). There may be some excuse for the poor and uneducated if they know nothing of God’s law, but the upper classes are just as ignorant. This indicates that the problem lies not with people’s social background or material... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 5:7

children = sons. forsaken Me. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:15 , Deuteronomy 32:21 ). sworn. Compare Jeremiah 5:2 . fed them to the full. So in many codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate; but some codices, with five early printed editions, read "made them swear". committed adultery. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:14 .Deuteronomy 5:18; Deuteronomy 5:18 ). The usual formula for idolatry. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:7

"How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlot's houses; they were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife. Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"The sentiment voiced in Jeremiah 5:9 here surfaces again in Jeremiah 5:29, forming a kind of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 5:7

7. It would not be consistent with God's holiness to let such wickedness pass unpunished. sworn by— (Jeremiah 5:2; Jeremiah 4:2); that is, worshipped. no gods— (Jeremiah 4:2- :). fed . . . to the full—so the Keri (Hebrew Margin) reads. God's bountifulness is contrasted with their apostasy (Jeremiah 4:2- :). Prosperity, the gift of God, designed to lead men to Him, often produces the opposite effect. The Hebrew Chetib (text) reads: "I bound them (to Me) by oath," namely, in the marriage... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 5:1-9

The depth of Judah’s sin 5:1-9God gave His people reasons for the coming judgment. He stressed social and personal sins particularly."Jeremiah now appreciates the moral necessity for God’s judgment of His people, as he sees clearly with his own eyes the iniquity, selfishness and depravity of life in Jerusalem." [Note: Harrison, Jeremiah and . . ., p. 74.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 5:7

Yahweh asked the people why He should pardon them. Their sons, for whom the older generation was responsible, had forsaken Him and trusted in idols. As payment for the blessings He had sent them, they continued to commit adultery with the Canaanite gods and their human representatives. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:1-31

1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness.2. Though they say, The Lord liveth] i.e. though they take the most solemn form of oath, as opposed to those held by the Jews to be of less obligation: cp. Matthew 5:34, Matthew 5:35. 3 The truth] RM ’faithfulness.’ It is this that God looks for. 4. These are poor, etc.] i.e. the ignorant ones who know no better. 5. Yoke.. bonds] i.e. restraints of God’s law. 6. Lion] i.e. the invader: cp. Matthew 4:7. Evenings] RM ’deserts.’7-8.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 5:7

(7) When I had fed them to the full.—The reading of the Hebrew text gives, though I had bound them by oath, sc., by the covenant, as of marriage; and this, as heightening the enormity of the sin that follows, gives a better sense than the English version, which follows the marginal reading of the Hebrew. The latter finds its parallel in Deuteronomy 32:15; Hosea 13:6. There is probably an implied reference to the covenant to which the people had sworn in the time of Josiah.Houses.—Literally,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 5:1-31

Jeremiah 5:1 To feel and to bring out the force of this verse stress must be laid upon the word man. The text tells us what a man is; how rare a man is; how valuable a man is. I. The man that is to be sought out according to the direction in this verse is a person that executeth judgment, and that seeketh the truth. A man, then, is first of all one that does what is light and just from principle, uniformly, and towards all. Further, a man is one who not only does what is right, but he has in... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:1-31

; Jeremiah 5:1-31; Jeremiah 6:1-30CHAPTER IVTHE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GODJeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of prophecy, two things would seem to be requisite. We must prepare ourselves with some knowledge of the circumstances of the time, and we must form some general conception of the ideas and aims of the inspired writer, both in themselves, and in their relation to passing events. Of the former, a partial and fragmentary... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:1-19

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 5:7

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:7

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 5:7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 5:1-9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 5:7

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:1-31

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 5:7

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 5:1-31

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:1-31

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