John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:11-12
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people ,.... See Gill on Jeremiah 6:14 , Jeremiah 6:15 . read more
Jeremiah 8:12 Niv
John Gill
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:12
Verse 12 The Prophet in these words shews still more clearly that they were wholly irreclaimable; for they had divested themselves of every shame. It is no doubt a proof of a wickedness past all remedy, when no shame remains. This verse has been also explained in the sixth chapter; it forms the fifteenth verse. But we must bear in mind the design of the Prophet. It is then briefly this, — to shew that the wickedness of the people was unhealable, and for this reason, because they had an iron... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:8-12
Peace, peace; when there is no peace. The present condition of the country, the evils that lowered upon the horizon,—these alike bore their message even to the natural conscience. If Israel was in the right way, and really understood the will of the Lord to do it, why these scandals, miseries, and impending evils? Again, the better to reach the perception of those who were thus unable to draw the inference for themselves, the condemnation was to be in kind—a sort of elementary lesson in... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:8-12
The exposure of pseudo-wisdom. I. THE CLAIM MADE . Those on whom Jeremiah presses his appeals for a change of purpose reply, if not by plain words, at all events by equally plain actions, that they are so wise in their own conceits as to need no guidance from an outsider. A profound belief in one's own insight and skill may of course be justified by results; such a belief has been a very important factor in many great achievements. But it is also to be noticed that to have this... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:10-12
These verses are almost the same as Jeremiah 6:12-15 ; the differences are in Jeremiah 6:10 . They are omitted in the Septuagint, and Hitzig regards them as an interpolation, at any rate from the point where the present passage coincides verbally with its parallel. His grounds are: Verses 8:13-9:1 Further description of the judgment; grief of Jeremiah. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:10-12
These verses are almost identical with Jeremiah 6:12-15.Jeremiah 8:10To them that shall inherit them - Rather, “to those that shall take possession of them, i. e., “to conquerors who shall take them by force. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 8:10-12
Jeremiah 8:10-12. Therefore will I give their wives unto others See on Jeremiah 6:12; and their fields to them, that shall inherit, or possess, them For the word inherit is sometimes taken for any sort of possession. See Psalms 32:8. So Israel is called the Lord’s inheritance, chap. Jeremiah 10:16, and elsewhere. The expression, however, implies that their fields should not only be taken possession of by the victorious Chaldeans, should be ravaged and stripped of their crops and... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:4-17
Sin and its punishment (8:4-17)It is natural for a person who falls to pick himself up again, but the people of Jerusalem who have fallen spiritually make no attempt to return to God (4-6). It is natural for a bird to obey the laws of instinct and know the time to migrate, but the people of Jerusalem do not know the laws of God or when to return to him (7).The teachers of the law, the wisdom teachers, the priests and the prophets have all led the people astray. Instead of denouncing wrongdoing,... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:12
could they blush. See note on Jeremiah 6:15 . the time of their visitation. A phrase ("time" or "year") used eight times in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 8:12 ; Jeremiah 10:15 ; Jeremiah 11:23 ; Jeremiah 23:12 ; Jeremiah 46:21 ; Jeremiah 48:44 ; Jeremiah 50:27 ; Jeremiah 51:18 ). Nowhere else, except Isaiah 10:3 .Hosea 9:7 . Micah 7:4 , until our Lord used it in Luke 19:44 . read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:4-12
The prophet here is instructed to set before this people the folly of their impenitence, which was it that brought this ruin upon them. They are here represented as the most stupid senseless people in the world, that would not be made wise by all the methods that Infinite Wisdom took to bring them to themselves and their right mind, and so to prevent the ruin that was coming upon them. I. They would not attend to the dictates of reason. They would not act in the affairs of their souls with the... read more