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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:20-31

Jeremiah 5:20-Obadiah : . Let Evil-doers Fear Yahweh.— The folly of not fearing Yahweh is rebuked by a reminder of the power of Him who has set an impassable limit even to the sea ( cf. the rebuke of Job’ s presumption by the description of Nature as Yahweh’ s work, Job 38-41). Because they have not feared Him who gives the regular rains (the “ former” in October, the “ latter” in March-April), and the resultant harvest ( Jeremiah 5:24), they have lost these gifts. Punishment is brought down... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit, i.e. they fill up their houses with the goods and wealth of those that they deceive and overreach; ill-gotten goods; a metonymy of the efficient; as the fowler carries his cage along with him, wherein he puts the birds which he catcheth, to keep safe that they get not away, when once they are caught, as also by their appearance and singing to entice others. Therefore they are become great, and waxen rich; showing how and in what... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 5:1-31

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the chapter. The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times; but it is not necessary; ostentatious reform and superficial religion may be synchronous with abandoned impiety and grossest corruption. Matthew Henry boldly puts an interval of twelve years between the fourth and this chapter, two years after Josiah’s death, but without argument or evidence.2.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:1-31

Chapter 5Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and I will pardon it ( Jeremiah 5:1 ).If you can find one man. You remember when the angels were going down to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham said, "Hey, Lord, shall not the God of the earth be fair? Would you destroy the righteous with the people? What if there are fifty righteous people... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 5:1-31

Jeremiah 5:2 . Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely. These words being in every one’s mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his perfections, they could not trifle in his presence. Verbal confessions, the emanations of an infidel heart, are but aggravations of impiety. Jeremiah 5:4 . Therefore I said, surely these are poor; they are foolish I will address myself to the great and the learned. Here the prophet found the same... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 5:26-31

Jeremiah 5:26-31As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great and waxen rich.Wicked professors the bane of the ChurchI. God has a people on earth.1. His creation.2. Called by Him from darkness to light.3. Privileged, pardoned, regenerated, adopted.II. In the Church there is an unhappy admixture of wicked men. This applies to--1. Those religious establishments whose constitution and discipline offer no restraints to the admission of such... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 5:27

Jer 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Ver. 27. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit, ] i.e., Of ill-gotten goods, which will prove no such catch in the close, as they count upon. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 5:27

cage: or, coop, This is, without doubt, a reference to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney renders; in which fowlers place several tame birds, to decoy the others into the snare prepared for them. Revelation 18:2 so are: Proverbs 1:11-1 Chronicles :, Hosea 12:7, Hosea 12:8, Amos 8:4-Joshua :, Micah 1:12, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11, Habakkuk 2:9-1 Kings : Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:25 - did eat Job 12:6 - tabernacles Psalms 55:11 - deceit Isaiah 2:7 - land Isaiah 3:14 - ye have eaten Isaiah 59:14 - ... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.Their houses — They fill their houses with the goods of those they deceive, and over-reach. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:26-28

26-28. Wicked men The fact of their rebellion, as well as its extent and bitter fruits, is set forth in the prevalent corruption. Men make a prey of each other; they are false to one another; they are prosperous in their wickedness; they close their ears to the prayer of the needy and the orphaned. read more