Jeremiah 13:14 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-21

Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a figure, to make it the more taken notice of and the more affecting (Jer. 13:12): Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine; that is, those that by their sins have made themselves vessels of wrath fitted to destruction shall be filled with the wrath of God as a bottle is with wine; and, as every vessel of mercy prepared for glory shall... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:14

And I will dash them one against another ,.... As drunken men fall foul on one another, and quarrel and fight; or in allusion to bottles and earthen vessels they are before compared to; and may denote the internal broils and contentions among themselves, that instead of assisting each other in their distress, they would be destroying one another; which was notorious in the last siege of Jerusalem: even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord ; no relation, nor even age nor sex,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:14

Verse 14 It may now be asked, What was this drunkenness which the Prophet announces? It may be understood in two ways, — either that God would give them up to a reprobate mind, — or that he would make them drunk with evils and calamities; for when God deprives men of a right mind, it is to prepare them for extreme vengeance. But the Prophet seems to have something further in view — that this people would be given up to the most grievous evils, which would wholly fill them with amazement. Yet it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-27

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

Here another symbol is introduced—a symbolic phrase rather than a symbolic action. The first symbol referred to the people as a whole; the second represents the fate of the individual members of the people. The words, Thus saith the lord God of Israel , are omitted in the Septuagint, and certainly the form of the following phrase seems hardly worthy of so solemn an introduction. Every bottle . It is an earthenware bottle, or pitcher, which seems from Jeremiah 13:13 to be meant (comp. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

The parable of the wine-flagons. I. THE PROUD ARE LIKE WINE - FLAGONS . Jeremiah is thinking chiefly of the aristocracy of his nation (Verse 13) and their pride (Verse 17). The metaphor, therefore, specially designates the proud. These are swelled-out and pretentious, but not solid, and do not contain anything good of their own. They are brittle. Pride is itself a source of danger ( Proverbs 16:18 ). II. THE WRATH OF GOD IS LIKE FERMENTING WINE . It is a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

Vessels of wrath. This is another similitude having the same general purpose as the former one. "Every earthen flagon (cf. Jeremiah 48:12 )—the inhabitants of Jerusalem, her king, her priests, and prophets—will be filled with the wine of the intoxicating beverage of God's wrath (cf. Jeremiah 25:15 ; Isaiah 28:7 ; Isaiah 51:17 ; Ezekiel 23:31 ; Psalms 60:3 ; Psalms 75:8 ) given them as a punishment for the pride and cruelty and impiety which they drank greedily as wine; cf. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

The last results of sin. I. GOD AND HIS MESSAGE MOCKED . II. OUR ENTIRE NATURE UNDER ITS CONTROL . III. ALL RANKS AND ORDERS POSSESSED BY IT . IV. EVERY MAN 'S HAND AGAINST HIS FELLOW . V. GOD KNOWN ONLY AS THE GOD OF WRATH .—C read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-15

Broken pitchers; or, worldly sufficiency and its punishment. I. THE SIGNS OF THIS DISPOSITION . The threatenings of God are interpreted as if they had been truisms of blessing justified by the unbelievers' own experience. The prophet is therefore despised, and his message wrested from its original meaning. The people were so oblivious to their own guilt that they looked forward without fear to the future, or they professed to do so. They had clothed themselves in triple armor... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:14

All orders and degrees of men in the state would be broken in indiscriminate destruction. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:14

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