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Matthew Henry

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 13:17

But if ye will not hear it ,.... The advice and exhortation now given, to repent of sin, be humble before God, and glorify him: my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride ; he would no more act in a public character; but, laying aside his office as a prophet and public instructor, would retire to some corner, where he might not be seen or heard, and there lament the sins of the people, particularly their "pride", which had been the cause of their ruin; or mourn on account of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:17

My soul shalt weep in secret places - If you will not hearken to the Lord, there is no remedy: destruction must come; and there is nothing left for me, but to go in secret, and mourn and bewail your wretched lot. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:17

Verse 17 The Prophet had indirectly threatened them; but yet there was some hope of pardon, provided the Jews anticipated God’s judgment in time and humbled themselves before him. He now declares more clearly that a most certain destruction was nigh at hand, If ye will not hear, he says, weep will my soul in secret But much weight is in what the Prophet intimates, that he would cease to address them, as though he had said, “I have not hitherto left off to exhort you, for God has so commanded... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:15-19

An admonition to seize upon the only means of escape. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:16-17

Lost upon the dark mountains. "Give glory to the Lord," etc. I. THE SCENE PORTRAYED . It is that of unhappy travelers overtaken by night, when crossing some of the perilous mountain tracks of Palestine. A traveler overtaken as these seem to have been by a night storm, is in imminent danger of falling over precipices and perishing miserably. Even by day the way is perilous: the paths are easily lost, or are strewn with rocks, or they lead along steep and slippery slopes, or by... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:17

Should all admonitions be in vain, Jeremiah will return (like Samuel, 1 Samuel 15:35 ) and give vent to his sorrowful emotion. The Lord's flock . Jehovah is likened to a shepherd (comp. Zechariah 10:3 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:17

The Lord’s flock - The people carried away captive with Jeconiah formed the Jewish Church, as we are expressly told, whereas Zedekiah and the people of Jerusalem possessed only the externals of the Church and not its reality. It is for this reason that the seventy years’ exile counts from Jeconiah’s captivity. read more

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