Jeremiah 3:1-5 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-5

These verses some make to belong to the sermon in the foregoing chapter, and they open a door of hope to those who receive the conviction of the reproofs we had there; God wounds that he may heal. Now observe here, I. How basely this people had forsaken God and gone a whoring from him. The charge runs very high here. 1. They had multiplied their idols and their idolatries. To have admitted one strange God among them would have been bad enough, but they were insatiable in their lustings after... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1

They say, if a man put away his wife ,.... Or, "saying" F23 לאמור "dicendo", Montanus, Vatablus, Janius & Tremellius. ; wherefore some connect those words with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if they were a continuation of what the Lord had been there saying, that he would reject their confidences; so Kimchi; but they seem rather to begin a new section, or a paragraph, with what were commonly said among men, or in the law, and as the sense of that; that if a man... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places ,.... Where idols were set and worshipped; either places naturally high, as hills and mountains, which were chosen for this service; or high places, artificially made and thrown up for this purpose; see 2 Kings 17:9 , Jarchi interprets the word שפים of "rivulets of water"; and so the Targum, where also idolatry was committed: and see where thou hast not been lien with ; see if there is a hill or mountain, or any high place, where thou hast not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain ,.... There were two seasons of the year when rain in common fell upon the land of Israel, called the former and the latter rain, and both are designed here. The former by רביבים , "showers", so called from the multitude of drops in them: these showers, or the former rain, used to fall in the month Marchesvan, which answers to part of our October; it was in autumn, at the fall of the year, at seedtime, when... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:4

Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me ,.... These words are either a confirmation and proof of that impudence with which these people are charged; for had they not been impudent, or had not a forehead like a whorish woman; or were they truly ashamed, they would have cried to the Lord henceforward; called upon him; claimed their relation to him; and owned his favours in time past: or, if they had not been impudent, they would not have dared from this time to have called God their Father... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:5

Will he reserve his anger for ever ?.... These words may be considered as a continuation of the speech put into their mouths to make to the Lord and plead with him, as well as what follows: will he keep it to the end ? that is, his anger: no; he will not: this is not according to the nature of God; he retains not his anger for ever, Micah 7:18 , though, according to some versions, this is to be understood of the sins of these people being reserved and kept forever, as their impudence... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:1

If a man put away his wife - It was ever understood, by the law and practice of the country, that if a woman were divorced by her husband, and became the wife of another man, the first husband could never take her again. Now Israel had been married unto the Lord; joined in solemn covenant to him to worship and serve him only. Israel turned from following him, and became idolatrous. On this ground, considering idolatry as a spiritual whoredom, and the precept and practice of the law to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:2

As the Arabian in the wilderness - They were as fully intent on the practice of their idolatry as the Arab in the desert is in lying in wait to plunder the caravans. Where they have not cover to lie in ambush, they scatter themselves about, and run hither and thither, raising themselves up on their saddles to see if they can discover, by smoke, dust, or other token, the approach of any travelers. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:3

There hath been no latter rain - The former rain, which prepared the earth for tillage, fell in the beginning of November, or a little sooner; and the latter rain fell in the middle of April, after which there was scarcely any rain during the summer. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:4

Wilt thou not - cry unto me, My father - Wilt thou not allow me to be thy Creator and Preserver, and cease thus to acknowledge idols? See on Jeremiah 2:27 ; (note). read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:4

Group of Brands