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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 5:25-31

Here, I. The prophet shows them what mischief their sins had done them: They have turned away these things (Jer. 5:25), the former and the latter rain, which they used to have in due season (Jer. 5:24), but which had of late been withheld (Jer. 3:3), by reason of which the appointed weeks of harvest had sometimes disappointed them. ?It is your sin that has withholden good from you, when God was ready to bestow it upon you.? Note, It is sin that stops the current of God's favour to us, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:30

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. What may justly raise admiration in some, and horror in others, or both in all: it is so amazing that it can hardly be conceived of, and so shameful and filthy as not to be expressed; what it is follows: read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:30

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed on the land - Dahler translates: "Strange crimes and horrible trespasses have been committed in the land." These have been already detailed; but this may refer to what follows. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 5:30

Verse 30 The Prophet, being not satisfied with the reproof which we have observed, speaks still more strongly against the wickedness of the people. He then says, that so deplorable was their state as to make all to feel amazed. A stupendous thing, he says, has happened, which exceeds all human conception, and cannot be comprehended. By the two words he uses, he intimates that the impiety of the people could not be expressed in words or could not be conceived by the mind; for it was a monstrous... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 5:30

A wonderful and horrible thing , etc.; rather, an appalling and horrible thins hath happened in the land . The word rendered "appalling" (or stupefying) has a peculiar force, it only occurs again in Jeremiah 23:14 , though a cognate adjective is found in Jeremiah 18:13 (comp. on Jeremiah 2:11 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 5:30-31

The result of the prophet's examination of the moral condition of the people. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 5:30-31

The most appalling condition to which a nation can sink. After enumerating the sins of his people in ever-darkening series , the prophet at length reaches a form of evil worse than all others, at the sight of which he starts back with an exclamation of horror; this is corruption at the very fountain of instruction and worship, and the willing acquiescence in it by the nation. I. CONSIDER THE FEARFUL NATURE OF THIS EVIL . 1. False prophecy . The prophet should be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 5:30-31

Mutual helpers in wrong-doing. I. THE TEMPTATIONS HERE SET FORTH . Three classes are mentioned—the prophet, the priest, and the people in general. Each class plays only too well its iniquitous and deplorable part, just because of the strong assistance which it gains from the attitude of the others. Each class acts as tempter in its turn, and that none the less effectually because it may do it unconsciously. Each one also tempts because he is tempted, and one hardly knows where... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 5:20-31

Against the God(1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and(2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24,They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-28. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root.Jeremiah 5:22The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has imposed upon it laws which it must obey, and keeps it in its... read more

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