John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:4
Moreover, thou shalt say unto them ,.... The Jews, in Jeremiah's time, in order to leave them inexcusable, though the Lord had before assured that they would not hearken to him, Jeremiah 7:27 , thus saith the Lord, shall they fall, and not rise ? men, when they fall, endeavour to get up again, and generally they do: shall he turn away, and not return ? when a man turns out of the right way into a wrong one, as soon as he is sensible of his mistake, he returns back; this is usually... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:4-12
The prophet here is instructed to set before this people the folly of their impenitence, which was it that brought this ruin upon them. They are here represented as the most stupid senseless people in the world, that would not be made wise by all the methods that Infinite Wisdom took to bring them to themselves and their right mind, and so to prevent the ruin that was coming upon them. I. They would not attend to the dictates of reason. They would not act in the affairs of their souls with the... read more