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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-17

The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line. I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the haste which the Chaldea army made to the war (Jer. 6:4, 5); now here we have the havoc made by the war. How lamentable are the desolations here described! The enemy shall so long quarter among them, and be so insatiable in their thirst after blood and treasure, that they shall seize all they can meet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination ?.... This seems chiefly, and in the first place, to respect the false prophets and wicked priests; who when they committed idolatry, or any other sin, and led the people into the same by their doctrine and example, yet, when reproved for it, were not ashamed, being given up to a judicial hardness of heart: nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush ; they were men of impudent faces, they had a whore's forehead; there... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:15

Verse 15 Jeremiah turns now his discourse to the whole people. In the last verse he reproved only the priests and the prophets; he now speaks more generally, and says, that they had put off all shame. “Behold,” he says, “they are sufficiently proved guilty, their wickedness is manifest, and yet there is no shame. Their disgrace is visible to heaven and earth; angels and all mortals are witnesses of their corruption; but they have such a meretricious front that they are touched by no sense of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-15

It is an all but complete Judgment, which Jehovah foreshows. Unwilling as the people are to hear it, the disclosure must be made. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-17

The preacher's bitter cry. Profound distress marks the prophet's utterances in this section. The lament over the incorrigible wickedness of men and his own baffled work is loud and long and bitter exceedingly (cf. Christ's tears over Jerusalem; Paul's sorrow over his countrymen). I. WHAT CAUSED THIS BITTER CRY ? His perception of the judgment of God drawing nigh ( Jeremiah 6:9 , Jeremiah 6:12 , Jeremiah 6:15 ). The obstinacy of the people ( Jeremiah 6:10 , Jeremiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed ? The Authorized Version certainly meets the requirements of the context; there seems to be an implied interrogation. Most, however, render, "They are brought to shame;" in which ease it seems best to take the verb as a perfect of prophetic certitude, equivalent to "they shall surely be brought to shame." When ; rather, because. Nay, they were not at all ashamed ; rather, nevertheless they feel no shame (i.e. at present). They shall be cast down ; rather, they... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:15

The sin against the Holy Ghost. I. THIS SIN IS SET FORTH HERE . For the sin is no one definite act, but a condition of mind which renders repentance hopeless and persistence in sin certain. But is not this the condition described in the text, described vividly, accurately? They had hardened themselves till repentance, yea, even shame, on account of "abomination" was utterly absent from them. "' They were not at all ashamed,' no tinge of it, not the least ' blush ' was... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 6:15

They are brought to shame becauseThey have “committed abomination:”Shame nevertheless they feel not;To blush nevertheless they know not;“Therefore they shall fall among” the falling;“At the time” when “I visit them, they shall” stumble,“Saith Yahweh.”The fact is expressed that their conduct was a disgrace to them, though they did not feel it as such. “Abomination” has its usual meaning of idolatry Jeremiah 4:1. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 6:13-15

Jeremiah 6:13-15. For, from the least of them, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; every one is given to covetousness Greedy of filthy lucre; and this made them oppressive, for of that evil, as well as others, the love of money is the bitter root. Nay, and this hardened their hearts against the word of God and his prophets: they were the covetous Pharisees that derided Christ. From the prophet to the priest, every one... read more

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