Jeremiah 18:16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 18:11-17

These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state. I. God was now speaking concerning them to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy; for it is that part of the rule of judgment that their case agrees with (Jer. 18:11): ?Go, and tell them? (saith God), ?Behold I frame evil against you and devise against you. Providence in all its operations is plainly working towards your ruin. Look... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:16

To make their land desolate ,.... Not that this was the intention either of those that led them out of the right way into those wrong paths, or of them that went into them; but so it was eventually; this was the issue of things; their idolatry and other sins were the cause of their land being desolate; through the ravage of the enemy, let in upon them by way of judgment; and through the destruction of men by them; so that there were few or none to cultivate and manure it: and a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:16

A perpetual hissing - שריקות sherikoth . a shrieking, hissing; an expression of contempt. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:16

Verse 16 The Prophet again denounces the punishment which they deserved, that desolation awaited the land. It would be, he says, their reward to have the land reduced to a solitude, and also to perpetual hissings. The word עולם oulam, which the Prophet had just used, is here also used, but in a different sense, for when he said, the paths of ages, he referred to past time, but now to a future time. As then the Jews had alienated themselves from the ways of ages, that is, from the eternal verity... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:16

The effect of this is to make the land of the transgressors an object of horror and astonishment (so render rather than desolate). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 18:16

Hissing - Not derision, but the drawing in of the breath quickly as men do when they shudder.Way his head - Or, “shake his head,” a sign among the Jews not of scorn but of pity. The desolation of the land of Israel is to fill people with dismay. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 18:15-17

Jeremiah 18:15-17. Because my people have forgotten me The fountain of living waters; have forgotten what I am in myself, and what I have been, and am still ready to be to them; have lost their knowledge of me, and their remembrance of what I have done for them; they have burned incense to vanity To vain idols, the products of men’s vain imaginations, and serving no good purpose whatever; and they have caused them to stumble, &c. “The worship of idols hath perverted them from... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

Lessons from the potter (18:1-23)A potter can make a lump of clay into whatever shape he wants. He can also change the kind of vessel he is making, if he thinks that conditions require it (18:1-4). As a potter determines the kind of vessel he makes, so God determines the destinies of nations, and this is the lesson that the people of Judah must learn (5-6). He may announce judgments on a nation, but he may withdraw those judgments if the nation repents. On the other hand, he may promise... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 18:16

hissing. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), for the contempt felt. read more

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