Jeremiah 13:21

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 13:21

What will thou say when he shall punish thee ?.... Or, "visit upon thee" F6 כי יפקד עליך "quando visitabit super te"; Cocceius; "quum visitaverit super te", Schmidt. ; that is, either when God shall punish thee for thy sins, thou canst bring no charge of injustice against him, or murmur and repine at the punishment inflicted on thee; so Jarchi; to which agrees the Targum, "when he shall visit on thee thy sin;' or else, to which the following words seem to incline, when the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:21

Thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee - This is said of their enemies, whether Assyrians or Chaldeans: for ever since Ahaz submitted himself to the king of Assyria, the kings of Judah never regained their independence. Their enemies were thus taught to be their lords and masters. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:21

Verse 21 As the Prophet observed that the Jews were in no way moved, he addressed them still further, and set before them what seemed then incredible, even the calamity, from which they thought they were able easily to defend themselves by means of their auxiliaries. He then adds, What wilt thou then say? For the false teachers made a clamor, and whenever Jeremiah began to speak, they violently assailed him, and the common people also wantonly barked at him. As then they thus petulantly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-27

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:20-21

The captivity being still (in spite of the perfect tense) a thing of the future, the prophet can seek to awaken the conscience of the careless under-shepherd by showing how serf-caused is his (or rather her) punishment. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:21

What wilt thou say , etc.? The rendering of the verse is uncertain, though the Authorized Version undoubtedly requires correction. The alternatives are, What wilt thou say when he shall appoint over thee ( but thou thyself hast trained them against thee ) familiar friends as thy head? and , What wilt thou say when he shall appoint over thee those whom thou hast taught thy familiar friends as thy head? The rendering "familiar friends" is justified by Psalms 55:13 ; Proverbs 16:28 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:21-22

Sin its own scourge. I. THERE ARE OTHER SCOURGES FOR SIN . The direct and positive inflictions of the Divine wrath. Not alone the Bible but the great books of history and experience must all be denied if we deny such positive punishment of sin. Never has there been yet any system of laws for moral beings which has been left to be simply self-acting, and which therefore have had no positive sanctions of penalty for transgression added. And God's Law is not such. As the Jews... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:21

Translate, “What wilt thou say, O Jerusalem, when He, Yahweh, shall set over thee for head those whom thou hast taught to be thy bosom friends?” The foreign powers, whose friendship she has been courting, will become her tyrants. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 13:19-21

Jeremiah 13:19-21. The cities of the south, &c. The cities of Judah, which lay in the southern part of Canaan, shall be straitly besieged by the enemy, so that there shall be no going in and out; or shall be deserted by the inhabitants. Or, as some think, the cities of Egypt are intended, from whence the Jews expected succour. These should fail them, and they should find no access to them. Lift up your eyes, &c. He speaks as if their enemies were even then upon their march, nay,... read more

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