Jeremias 2:11-14 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:9-13

The prophet, having shown their base ingratitude in forsaking God, here shows their unparalleled fickleness and folly (Jer. 2:9): I will yet plead with you. Note, Before God punishes sinners he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. Note, further, When much has been said of the evil of sin, still there is more to be said; when one article of the charge is made good, there is another to be urged; when we have said a great deal, still we have yet to speak on God's behalf, Job 36:2. Those... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:14-19

The prophet, further to evince the folly of their forsaking God, shows them what mischiefs they had already brought upon themselves by so doing; it had already cost them dear, for to this were owing all the calamities their country was now groaning under, which were but an earnest of more and greater if they repented not. See how they smarted for their folly. I. Their neighbours, who were their professed enemies, prevailed against them, and this was owing to their sin. 1. They were enslaved... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:11

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods ?.... Though they are not by nature gods which they worship, only nominal and fictitious deities, yet they did not change them for others; but when they once embraced the worship of them, continued therein; so did the Chittim, the inhabitants of the isles, who though they traded to distant countries, from place to place; and so the Kedarenes, who dwelt in tents, and fed cattle, and moved from one desert to another, and from one pasture... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:12

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this ,.... Meaning either the angels in heaven, or the heavens themselves, by a personification: and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord ; all which may be signified by storms and tempests, by thunder and lightning, and by the sun's withdrawing its light. This is said to aggravate the wickedness committed, as if the heavens blushed and were ashamed, and were confounded and amazed at it; and as if, on account of it, the Jews deserved not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed two evils ,.... Not but that they had committed more, but there were two principal ones they were guilty of, hereafter mentioned; and it was an aggravation of these crimes, that they were the professing people of God who had committed them: and it may be observed, that such sin; they are not without it, nor the commission of it; and may be left to fall into great sins, and yet remain his people; covenant interest cannot be dissolved; this should be considered not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant ?.... That he does not abide in the house, in his own land, but is carried captive, becomes subject to others, and is used as a slave; so the Targum, "as a servant;' is he not the Lord's first born? are not the people of Israel called the children of the living God? how come they then to be treated not as children, as free men, but as servants? this cannot be owing to any breach of covenant or promise on God's part, or to the failure of the blessing of national... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:12

Be astonished, O ye heavens - Or, the heavens are astonished. The original will admit either sense. The conduct of this people was so altogether bad, that among all the iniquities of mankind, neither heaven nor earth had witnessed any thing so excessively sinful and profligate. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:13

Two evils - First, they forsook God, the Fountain of life, light, prosperity, and happiness. Secondly, they hewed out broken cisterns; they joined themselves to idols, from whom they could receive neither temporal nor spiritual good! Their conduct was the excess of folly and blindness. What we call here broken cisterns, means more properly such vessels as were ill made, not staunch, ill put together, so that the water leaked through them. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant? - Is he a slave purchased with money, or a servant born in the family? He is a son himself. If so, then, why is he spoiled? Not because God has not shown him love and kindness; but because he forsook God, turned to and is joined with idols. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:11

Verse 11 Hence he says, Yea, pass over unto the islands; and then he adds, see whether there is a thing like this; that is, such a monstrous and execrable thing can nowhere be found. An explanation follows, No nation has changed its gods, and yet they are no gods; that is, religion among all nations continues the same, so that they do not now and then change their gods, but worship those who have been as it were handed down to them by their fathers. And yet, he says, they are no gods If it had... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:9-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:14-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:11

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