耶利米书 5:27-28 CUNPSS

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:20-30

YHWH Asks His People Why In View Of His Clearly Revealed Power They Do Not Fear Him, And Concludes That It Is Because They Are Revolutionaries And Rebels, Caught Up In Sin (Jeremiah 5:20-30 ). YHWH addresses His people as foolish and lacking in understanding, and as those who can neither see nor hear, and asks them whether or not they have considered His control of the mighty seas, and of the regular seasons. Do not these things awaken in them a reverent awe (‘fear’). Being unused to the sea... read more

Arthur Peake

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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine; or, so fat that they shine; by reason.of their wealth and riches they pamper themselves till their eyes stand out with fatness, Psalms 73:7; their wrinkles are filled up with fat, which makes their faces shine. They overpass the deeds of the wicked; either, they go beyond the very heathen themselves in wickedness, Ezekiel 5:6,Ezekiel 5:7; or rather, they escape the hardships and sufferings that others undergo, Psalms 73:5-8, they escape better than others; or... 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