Jeremiah 8:4-7

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jeremiah 8:4-12

The Jews Persist in Wickedness v. 4. Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Shall they fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return? or, "Shall a man fall and not get up again? Shall one wander off and not return to the right path?" It is a natural instinct and inclination of men to get up after a fall, to search for the right path if one has lost his way. v. 5. Why, then, is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? Why do they persist so... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jeremiah 8:1-22

1. 6. FULFILMENT OF RETRIBUTION CORRESPONDING TO THE IDOL-ABOMINATIONSJeremiah 8:1-31 At this time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring1The bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of his princes,And the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets,And the bones of the citizens of Jerusalem out of their graves,2 And they shall spread them out to the sun,And to the moon, and to all the host of heaven,Which they loved and which they served and followed,And which they sought and... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Jeremiah 8:4-22

False Promises of Peace Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set on evil. The very birds that were sensitive to the laws of migration, and obeyed the call of the sunnier clime, were more impressible than the Chosen People. God often calls us out of the stormy winter blasts to lands of sunny fellowship, but we will not heed. From Jeremiah 5:10 onward we have a... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:1-22

Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally expected that they will rise, if they wander that they will return. In the case of Jerusalem this had not been so, their backsliding had been perpetual. There was no sign of repentance. The people did not know the ordinance or judgment of the Lord. Because of this perpetual backsliding the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:7

A LESSON FROM THE STORK‘The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times.’ Jeremiah 8:7 We could lay down on the map the great highways along which bird-life comes and goes.How do they know how to journey so unerringly for thousands of miles? It is one of the greatest mysteries in Nature. They do not travel by sight of landmarks; the birds of each year’s brood go straight for the first time to their goal. It is not that they are guided by those who have made the journey before; the lark is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:1-22

Subsection 3. In This Subsection Jeremiah Admonishes The People Concerning The False Confidence That They Have In The Inviolability Of The Temple, And In Their Sacrificial Ritual, And After Chiding Them, Calls On Them To Recognise The Kind Of God That They Are Dealing With (Jeremiah 7:1 to Jeremiah 10:25 ). Commencing with what will be the standard introductory words up to chapter 25, ‘The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH --’ (Jeremiah 7:1; compare Jeremiah 11:1; Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:4-13

YHWH Expresses Amazement At The Unwillingness of His People To Return To Him, And Their Complete Disregard For His Requirements, And Warns Them That As A Consequence They Will Lose Everything (Jeremiah 8:4-13 ). YHWH now declares that the behaviour of the people reveals them for what they are. They are so dead set on sin that nothing will turn them aside from it or cause them to stop and think. While birds observe their proper times, His people ignore them and do what they will. And yet they... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:4-17

Jeremiah 8:4-Esther : . Judah’ s Unnatural Conduct and its Punishment.— There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people’ s misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course away from Him ( Jeremiah 8:6 mg.) . They put themselves below the level of the very birds of heaven, the stork, the turtle-dove, the swift, and the swallow (so in Jeremiah 8:7), who know the time of their return in spring (after their winter migration; cf. Isaiah 1:3).... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:4

Moreover thou shalt say unto them; though possibly it be all in vain, yet thou shalt keep in thy work. Shall they fall, and not arise? an interrogation that hath the force of a negative, i.e. surely none. Or, Will men, is there no hope? And are they upon this ground desperate? Or rather, Will men fall, and not arise? Are they such fools, that having fallen by their sins, and been foretold all that is coming, that they will not accept of a remedy? Jeremiah 7:27; Hosea 14:1. Shall he turn away,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:5

By a perpetual backsliding: either a universal backsliding; or rather, obstinately resolved to hold on, though they see they are out of the way; not out of levity or inconsiderateness. The Hebrew word signifies strength, the same used Psalms 13:1, and translated for ever, implying a strong, stiff, stout refusal. See Isaiah 57:17; Jeremiah 5:3. Deceit: either their injustice and cozenages in circumventing one another, which was so frequent among them, Jeremiah 9:4-6; Micah 7:3,Micah 7:4; or... read more

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