jeremiah-8:8-22-niv

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13-22

In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them, not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is a consumption determined, Isa. 10:23. 1. They shall be quite stripped of all their comforts (Jer.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:8

How do ye say, we are wise ,.... Which they were continually boasting of, though they were ignorant of the judgment of the Lord, and were more stupid than the stork, turtle, crane, and swallow: and the law of the Lord is with us ? this was the foundation of their boast, because the law was given to them, and not to the nations of the world, which knew not God, and therefore they must be a wise and understanding people; and this law continued with them, they had it in their synagogues,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed ,.... Of the wisdom of which they boasted, when it would appear to be folly, and unprofitable to them: they are dismayed and taken ; frightened at the calamities coming upon them, and taken as in a snare, as the wise sometimes are in their own craftiness, Job 5:13 . Lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord ; sent by the prophets, which urged obedience to the law, and is the best explanation of it; but this they despised, and refused it: and what... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore will I give their wives unto others ,.... To strangers, to the Gentiles; than which nothing could be more disagreeable to them, or a sorer punishment, of a temporal one: and their fields to them that shall inherit them ; or, to the heirs F9 ליורשים "haeredibus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus. ; other and new ones; and who should possess them as if they were the true and rightful heirs of them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness;... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13

I will surely consume them, saith the Lord ,.... Or, "gathering I will gather them" F11 אסף אסיפם "eolligendo colligam eos", Montanus, Tigurine version. So Piscator. ; into some one place, the city of Jerusalem, and there destroy them. The word is, לשון כלייה , expressive of consumption and destruction, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech observe; and so the Targum, "destroying I will destroy them, saith the Lord.' There shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still ?.... In the country, where were barrenness and want of provisions; in the villages and unwalled towns, where they were exposed to the spoils and ravages of the enemy. These words, with what follow, are the words of the prophet, in the language of the Israelites, as Kimchi observes. Assemble yourselves ; this is the gathering together, in order to be consumed, before threatened, which they themselves were made to do: and let us enter into the defenced cities ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace ,.... Outward prosperity, affluence of temporal blessings, peace with enemies, and safety from them, which the false prophets had given them reason to expect; or which last they concluded and hoped for, from their being in the defenced cities: but no good came ; they were disappointed in their expectation; the good that was promised them, and they looked for, never came, but all the reverse: and for a time of health ; or, of healing F12 מרפה "medelae, vel ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:16

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan ,.... That is, was heard at Jerusalem. It seems to be a hyperbolical expression, showing the certainty of the coming of the Assyrian monarch and his army, to invade Judea, and besiege Jerusalem; the news of which was brought from Dan, which lay in the further part of the land; see Jeremiah 4:15 , and pointing at the way in which they should come northwards, through Phoenicia and the tribe of Dan, with a numerous cavalry of horses and horsemen:... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:4-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:11-12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:16

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