Jeremiah 13:15-29:22

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 13:15

Hear ye, and give ear ,.... Both to what goes before, and what follows after. The words doubled denote the closest and strictest attention: be not proud ; haughty, scornful, as above all instruction, and needing no advice and counsel, self-conceited, despising the word of God, and his messages by his prophets; or, "do not lift up yourselves" F24 אל תגבהו "ne elevetis vos", Montanus, Pagninus; "exaltetis", Junius & Tremellius. ; above others, and against God: for the Lord... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:15

Verse 15 The Prophet shews here more fully what we have stated, — that so refractory was the temper of those with whom he had to do, that it was necessary to use various means to subdue them. And it was not in vain that he added this exhortation, which manifests indignation; nor was it without displeasure that he required a hearing, Hear ye, and give ear; be not lifted up, for the Lord is he who speaks Then we may hence gather, either that Jeremiah was derided, or that his words were... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-27

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-15

Broken pitchers; or, worldly sufficiency and its punishment. I. THE SIGNS OF THIS DISPOSITION . The threatenings of God are interpreted as if they had been truisms of blessing justified by the unbelievers' own experience. The prophet is therefore despised, and his message wrested from its original meaning. The people were so oblivious to their own guilt that they looked forward without fear to the future, or they professed to do so. They had clothed themselves in triple armor... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:15

Be not proud. It is difficult to see what those whom the prophet was addressing had to proud of; but it is certain that they were proud, and that thereby they were, more than by aught else, hindered from receiving the word of God. The inflated shape, the mean material, and the easily destroyed nature of those" bottles" to which he had likened them, as well as the arrogant boastful talk of the drunkard, whose doings theirs he predicted should resemble; both these comparisons show how... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:15-16

A demand for the timely giving of what is due to Jehovah. It will be observed that the previous verses of this chapter set forth the doom of Jehovah's apostate people by two very expressive figures. There is the figure of the girdle, marred and become good for nothing by lying so long in the damp recess of the rock. There is also the figure of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, from those high in station down to the common people, every one of them become as it were a living wine-skin, filled... 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:15

Be not proud - Both the symbols were of a nature very humiliating to the national self-respect. read more

Joseph Benson

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

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