Jeremiah 5:10-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 5:10-19

We may observe in these verses, as before, I. The sin of this people, upon which the commission signed against them is grounded. God disowns them and dooms them to destruction, Jer. 5:10. But is there not a cause? Yes; for, 1. They have deserted the law of God (Jer. 5:11): The house of Israel and the house of Judah, though at variance with one another, yet both agreed to deal very treacherously against God. They forsook the worship of him, and therein violated their covenants with him; they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:10

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy ,.... These are the words of the prophet, or of the Lord by the prophet, to the Chaldeans, ordering them to ascend the walls of Jerusalem, and break them down, as they did, even all the walls of it round about, Jeremiah 52:7 , there can be nothing done without the Lord's will; and there is no evil in a city but what is done, or ordered, or suffered to be done by him, Amos 3:6 , but make not a full end ; meaning not of the walls, for a full end was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me ,.... This is a reason why such orders are given to the army of the Chaldeans to ascend the walls of Jerusalem and destroy them; namely, the perfidy both of the ten tribes, signified by the house of Israel; so Abarbinel; and of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, signified by the house of Judah; which was very great, and attended with aggravated circumstances; instances of it follow. The Targum is, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:12

They have belied the Lord, and said, it is not he ,.... Or, "denied the Lord" F24 וכחשו ביהוה "egaverunt Dominum", V. L. Pagninus; "abnegant", Piscator; "abnegarunt Jehovam", Cocceius, Schmidt. , as some render the words, saying that there was no God; which, though they might not deliver in express words, yet inasmuch as they denied his providence, and disbelieved his word by his prophets, it was tacitly denying that there was a God, or that the Lord was God. The meaning of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:13

And the prophets shall become wind ,.... Their prophecies shall vanish into air; they shall become of no effect; they shall never be accomplished: and the word is not in them ; not the word of the Lord; he never spoke by them; they speak of themselves; they never were inspired or commissioned by him to say what they do: thus shall it be done unto them; the same evils they say shall befall us shall come upon them; they shall perish by the sword or famine; we have reason to believe that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:14

Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, because ye speak this word ,.... That it is not the Lord; it is not he that speaks; it is no prophecy of him, and therefore shall become wind, and come to nothing: behold, I will make my word in thy mouth fire : it shall have its effect, and a dreadful one; it shall not become wind, but be as fire, not to enlighten the understanding, to purify the conscience, and warm the heart; but to torture, distress, and destroy, as the fire of the word out... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:15

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far ,.... From Babylon, as in Jeremiah 4:16 , O house of Israel, saith the Lord ; though the house of Israel is generally taken for the ten tribes, especially when distinguished from the house of Judah; yet here it seems to design the Jews, the posterity of Jacob, or Israel in the land of Judea; for Israel, or the ten tribes, were carried captive into Assyria before this time: it is a mighty nation ; strong and powerful; so mighty that they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is an open sepulchre ,.... The Chaldeans used bows and arrows in fighting; and the quiver is a case for arrows; and the phrase denotes, that their arrows would do great execution, and be very mortal; so that a quiver of them would be as devouring as an open grave, into which many dead are cast. The Septuagint and Arabic versions have not this clause; and the Syriac version renders it, "whose throats are as open sepulchres"; see Romans 3:13 , they are all mighty men ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up thine harvest ,.... The standing corn in the fields, cut it down, and give it as fodder to their horses, which is usually done by armies; or the increase of the earth, when gathered into the barn, which so great an army would consume: and thy bread ; which includes all kind of provisions: which thy sons and thy daughters should eat ; which is an aggravation of the calamity and misery, that that should become the prey of their enemies, which they with so much... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 5:18

Nevertheless, in those days ,.... When these things should be done by the king of Babylon and his army: saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you : this was to be done at another time, not now; See Gill on Jeremiah 4:27 , Jeremiah 5:10 , though some think that this is a threatening of more and greater calamities; that this would not be all he would do to them; he had not yet done; he had other evils and calamities, to bring upon them, particularly a long captivity. read more

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