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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 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly ,.... That is, the false prophets and lying priests, who pretended to be physicians, and to heal the sickly and distempered state of the people; and they did do it, in their way, but not thoroughly; they did not search the wound to the bottom; they drew a skin over it, and made a scar of it, and called it a cure; they made light of the hurt or wound; they healed it, making nothing of it ; or "despising it", as the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly - Of the daughter is not in the text, and is here improperly added: it is, however, in some MSS. Peace, peace - Ye shall have prosperity - when there was none, and when God had determined that there should be none. Here the prophets prophesied falsely; and the people continued in sin, being deceived by the priests and the prophets. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

Verse 14 This is to be applied to the prophets and priests alone; they not only corrupted the people by their bad example, but also shook off every fear of God, and by their impostures and false boasting took away every regard and respect for the teaching of the true prophets. He then says, that they healed to no purpose, or with levity or slightness, (175) the wound of the people He says, by way of concession, that they had healed the wounds of the people: but it was no cure, when the evil was... 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 6:14

They have healed , etc. The full force of the verb is, "they have busied themselves about healing" (so Jeremiah 8:11 ; Jeremiah 51:9 ). Of the daughter . Our translators evidently had before them a text which omitted these words, in accordance with many Hebrew manuscripts and the Septuagint; Van der Hooght's text, however, contains them, as also does the parallel passage ( Jeremiah 8:11 ). Slightly ; or, lightly ; Septuagint, ἐξουθενοῦντες . Saying, Peace, peace .... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:14

False peace. I. THE CRAVING FOR PEACE IS NATURAL . These false prophets gained their influence by professing to satisfy a natural instinct. The Jews dreaded war with their great neighbors. 1. All wicked men are at heart in a stats of unrest . The soul that sins is at war with God, with the law and order of the universe, with its own nature. 2. This condition is distressing . The outward warfare begets inward unrest. Then, above all things, peace is the great... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:14

The vampires of the soul. There is a hideous creature called the vampire bat, that is said to destroy its victims by sucking their life-blood. Whilst thus destroying them, it gently fans them with its wings, and so keeps them in a profound slumber, from which the probabilities are that they will never wake. And what other are they who lull the souls of sinful men to the sleep of death by " saying , Peace, peace; when there is no peace?" No greater crime can be imagined than this of... read more

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