Jeremiah 13:17 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 13:15-17

Jeremiah 13:15-17. Hear ye, &c. The prophet proceeds to give them good counsel, which, if it had been taken, the desolation and destruction threatened would have been prevented. Be not proud Pride was one of the sins for which God had a controversy with them, Jeremiah 13:9. Let them mortify and forsake this and their other sins, and God will let fall his controversy with them. Give glory to the Lord your God Glorify God by an humble confession of your sins, by submitting yourselves... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-27

A nation useless and disgraced (13:1-27)In an effort to emphasize God’s warnings to Judah more forcefully, Jeremiah gave them an illustration that they could all see. He took a piece of clean new cloth, put it around his waist, then walked to a distant river where he buried the cloth in the river bank. Some time later he returned to the river and brought back the cloth for all to see. It was now rotten and useless (13:1-7). The meaning is that Judah, the nation that was supposed to be morally... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 13:17

my soul = Me (emphatic). Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. weep . . . weep sore . . . rundown. Figure of speech Anabasis. App-6 . run down, &c. Compare Matthew 26:38 . Luke 19:41 . See App-85 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 13:17

Jeremiah 13:17. But if ye will not hear it— The prophet declares, that after having done all he could to cause the people to return to their duty, without success, nothing farther would remain for him, but to lay aside his public character, and secretly bewail their obstinacy and contempt of God's word. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:17

17. hear it—my exhortation. in secret—as one mourning and humbling himself for their sin, not self-righteously condemning them (Philippians 3:18). pride—(see on Philippians 3:18- :; Job 33:17). flock— (Job 33:17- :), just as kings and leaders are called pastors. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 13:15-17

A final plea and warning 13:15-17 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 13:17

If the people would not listen to the Lord’s Word, Jeremiah would weep profusely for them, because their failure to listen would signify that the people, like a flock of sheep, would be taken captive by an enemy."Let no one think that the good news of Jesus Christ is to be communicated in a cold ’take it or leave it’ manner. Evangelical preaching and Christian witnessing must not be limited merely to a correct interpretation of the doctrines of the Word. We must have a love for sinners, so... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:1-27

Jeremiah’s Seventh Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiachin). The Linen GirdleThe date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word ’queen’ (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta, mother of Jehoiachin. The queen-mother had always a high position, and in Jehoiachin’s case this would be specially so, owing to his tender years.1-11. The symbol of the linen girdle.1. Go, etc.] It is doubtful whether this and the subsequent acts of the prophet were real or done only in symbol. As,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 13:17

(17) My soul shall weep in secret places for your pride.—The words present no difficulty that requires explanation, but deserve to be noted in their exquisite tenderness as characteristic of the prophet’s temperament (comp. Lamentations 1:16), reminding us of the tears shed over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41) and of St. Paul’s “great heaviness and continual sorrow” (Romans 9:2). Nothing remained for one who found his labours fruitless but silent sorrow and intercession. The “secret places” find a... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 13:1-27

Habit Jeremiah 13:23 I. The Origin of Habit. Habit may be conceived to arise in this way. When, in the revolution of time of the day, or the week, or the month, or the year the point comes round at which we have been thinking of anything, or have done anything, by the law of the association of ideas we think of it again, or do it again. For instance, when day dawns we awake. We get out of bed because we have done it at that time before. At a later hour we take breakfast, and go away to... read more