jeremiah-8:8-22-niv

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past - The siege of Jerusalem lasted two years; for Nebuchadnezzar came against it in the ninth year of Zedekiah, and the city was taken in the eleventh; see 2 Kings 25:1-3 . This seems to have been a proverb: "We expected deliverance the first year - none came. We hoped for it the second year - we are disappointed; we are not saved - no deliverance is come." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? - Yes, the most excellent in the world. "Is there no physician there?" Yes, persons well skilled to apply it. "Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" Because ye have not applied to the physician, nor used the balm. Ye die because ye will not use the remedy. But to apply this metaphor: - The Israelites are represented as a man dying through disease; and a disease for the cure of which the balm of Gilead was well known to be a specific,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:8

Verse 8 Interpreters think that the Prophet here directs his words to the priests, and the false prophets, and the other chiefs of the people, because they proudly arrogated to themselves the knowledge of the law: but what is said may be no less extended to the whole people; for, as we shall presently see, all of them, from the least to the greatest, no doubt boasted that they were sufficiently wise. I hence think that the Prophet here inveighs against the whole body of the people; for all,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:9

Verse 9 He says now that the wise were ashamed, and astonished, and ensnared By which words he means, that the Jews gained nothing by their craftiness, while they arrogated to themselves wisdom, and under this pretense rejected all admonitions, and sought to be spared. “This wisdom, “he says, “avails you nothing, for God, as it is said in another place, will take you unawares.” (Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19.) Ashamed, then, he says, are they; not that they were then ashamed; for be said... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:10

Verse 10 GOD here threatens punishment, because he found that he effected nothing, and that he had to do with an obstinate people, having before tried whether they were reclaimable. Having seen that exhortations were of no avail, he now comes to extreme severity, I will give, he says, their wives to strangers. He sets forth, by a particular instance, the evils which usually accompany wars: and nothing is more distressing than when the wife is snatched away from her husband; for if husbands had... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:11

Verse 11 THE Prophet repeats what we have noticed in the sixth chapter: but it was necessary to reiterate often, to the deaf and the slothful, what had already been forgotten, or what had not touched their hearts. As these things have been already explained, I shall now only refer briefly to the main points. He no doubt condemns here the priests and the prophets. He spoke before generally of the whole people, “from the least,” he said, “to the greatest.” But as for the sake of amplifying, he... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:12

Verse 12 The Prophet in these words shews still more clearly that they were wholly irreclaimable; for they had divested themselves of every shame. It is no doubt a proof of a wickedness past all remedy, when no shame remains. This verse has been also explained in the sixth chapter; it forms the fifteenth verse. But we must bear in mind the design of the Prophet. It is then briefly this, — to shew that the wickedness of the people was unhealable, and for this reason, because they had an iron... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:13

Verse 13 He confirms, as I have said, what he had declared in the last verse, tie had said, that there would be the ruin of the whole people: for the same purpose he now adds, Destroying I will destroy them The verb אסף, asaph, properly means “to collect, “but metaphorically, “to destroy;” as we say in our language, Trousser; Je les trousserai tous ensemble. And hence it more fully appears, that the Prophet explains what he had said, that destruction was nigh them all, so that none would... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:14

Verse 14 This verse, and those which follow, are explained in different ways; but I will briefly shew the meaning of the Prophet. I have no doubt but that he speaks here in the name of the whole people. The Prophet, then, in these words, represents what occupied their minds, and the counsels which the Jews adopted: and further, there is no doubt but that he shews in these words that they, as hypocrites are wont to do, had recourse to expedients, by which they thought they could protect... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:15

Verse 15 He explains his meaning more clearly in this verse, — that the Jews in vain flattered themselves, while they entertained vain hopes. He then says that there was no reason for them to deceive themselves; for were they to promise themselves peace a hundred times, ruin would still be nigh them, and that though they hoped for a time of healing, terror would assail them. We hence see that in the last verse his purpose was to shew how foolish the people were, who thought that they would be... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:15

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