Jeremiah 14:12 - Exposition

Their cry . The word is very forcible; it is the shriek in which an unsophisticated man gives vent to his pain and grief. An oblation . It is the vegetable offering (Authorized Version, "meat offering;" Luther, "speisopfer") which is referred to in the so-called minkhah (literally, gift ). Though sometimes offered separately, it regularly accompanied a burnt offering. I will not accept them . Dr. Payne Smith tries to soften the rejection of these worshippers by the remark that "there is a time when the most genuine repentance avails nothing to avert the temporal consequences of sin." But the analogy of other similar passages (e.g. Isaiah 1:15 ) warrants the view of Keil that the ground of the rejection of the worship is its heartless formalism and insincerity, which was equally a bar to Jehovah's favor and the prophet's intercession.