Jeremiah 6:14-15 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-17

The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line. I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the haste which the Chaldea army made to the war (Jer. 6:4, 5); now here we have the havoc made by the war. How lamentable are the desolations here described! The enemy shall so long quarter among them, and be so insatiable in their thirst after blood and treasure, that they shall seize all they can meet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly ,.... That is, the false prophets and lying priests, who pretended to be physicians, and to heal the sickly and distempered state of the people; and they did do it, in their way, but not thoroughly; they did not search the wound to the bottom; they drew a skin over it, and made a scar of it, and called it a cure; they made light of the hurt or wound; they healed it, making nothing of it ; or "despising it", as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination ?.... This seems chiefly, and in the first place, to respect the false prophets and wicked priests; who when they committed idolatry, or any other sin, and led the people into the same by their doctrine and example, yet, when reproved for it, were not ashamed, being given up to a judicial hardness of heart: nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush ; they were men of impudent faces, they had a whore's forehead; there... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly - Of the daughter is not in the text, and is here improperly added: it is, however, in some MSS. Peace, peace - Ye shall have prosperity - when there was none, and when God had determined that there should be none. Here the prophets prophesied falsely; and the people continued in sin, being deceived by the priests and the prophets. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

Verse 14 This is to be applied to the prophets and priests alone; they not only corrupted the people by their bad example, but also shook off every fear of God, and by their impostures and false boasting took away every regard and respect for the teaching of the true prophets. He then says, that they healed to no purpose, or with levity or slightness, (175) the wound of the people He says, by way of concession, that they had healed the wounds of the people: but it was no cure, when the evil was... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:15

Verse 15 Jeremiah turns now his discourse to the whole people. In the last verse he reproved only the priests and the prophets; he now speaks more generally, and says, that they had put off all shame. “Behold,” he says, “they are sufficiently proved guilty, their wickedness is manifest, and yet there is no shame. Their disgrace is visible to heaven and earth; angels and all mortals are witnesses of their corruption; but they have such a meretricious front that they are touched by no sense of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:1-30

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-15

It is an all but complete Judgment, which Jehovah foreshows. Unwilling as the people are to hear it, the disclosure must be made. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-17

The preacher's bitter cry. Profound distress marks the prophet's utterances in this section. The lament over the incorrigible wickedness of men and his own baffled work is loud and long and bitter exceedingly (cf. Christ's tears over Jerusalem; Paul's sorrow over his countrymen). I. WHAT CAUSED THIS BITTER CRY ? His perception of the judgment of God drawing nigh ( Jeremiah 6:9 , Jeremiah 6:12 , Jeremiah 6:15 ). The obstinacy of the people ( Jeremiah 6:10 , Jeremiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed , etc. The full force of the verb is, "they have busied themselves about healing" (so Jeremiah 8:11 ; Jeremiah 51:9 ). Of the daughter . Our translators evidently had before them a text which omitted these words, in accordance with many Hebrew manuscripts and the Septuagint; Van der Hooght's text, however, contains them, as also does the parallel passage ( Jeremiah 8:11 ). Slightly ; or, lightly ; Septuagint, ἐξουθενοῦντες . Saying, Peace, peace .... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 6:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 6:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 6:14

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