Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver is an open sepulcher - They are such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to slay one man. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:18
I will not make a full end - There are more evils in store for you. You shall not only be spoiled, and all your property destroyed, but ye shall be carried into captivity; and ye shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours, Jeremiah 5:19 . read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:22
Which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea - What can I not do, who confine the sea, that enormous mass of waters, and prevent it from overflowing the earth; not by immense mountains and rocks, but by the sand, no particle of which is in cohesion with another? The most tremendous waves cannot displace nor pass over this simple barrier. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:23
They are revolted and gone - They have abandoned me, and are gone farther and farther into transgression. They are gone entirely away from truth and righteousness. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:24
Giveth rain, both the former and the latter - See the note on Jeremiah 3:3 . The appointed weeks of the harvest - As the early rains fell in the northern parts of Judea about the end of September, in the civil year of the Hebrews, so the latter rains fell before harvest, in the months of March and April. The appointed weeks of the harvest were those which fell between the passover and pentecost. In the southern parts the harvest was earlier than in the northern. Dr. Blayney translates,... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned away these things - When these appointed weeks of harvest do not come, should we not examine and see whether this be not in God's judgments? Have not our iniquities turned away these good things from us? read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:26
They lay wait, as he that setteth snares - A metaphor taken from fowlers, who, having fixed their nets, lie down and keep out of sight, that when birds come, they may be ready to draw and entangle them. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds - There is no doubt that the reference here is to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney has rendered it; in these the fowlers put several tame birds, which when the wild ones see, they come and light on the cage, and fall into the snare. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:28
They judge not the cause, yet they prosper - Perhaps we might be justified in translating, "And shall they prosper?" read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:15
I will bring a nation - The Scythians, says Dahler; the Babylonians, whose antiquity was great, that empire being founded by Nimrod. Whose language thou knowest not - The Chaldee, which, though a dialect of the Hebrew, is so very different in its words and construction that in hearing it spoken they could not possibly collect the meaning of what was said. read more