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Jeremiah 6:8

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, so the Lord addresses her in a tender appeal, lest My soul depart from thee, unwilling as His love is to take this step, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited, this warning being repeated here once more, in order to cause her to return to her senses. An appeal of this kind may often be a means of preventing the misery and ruin of a sinful people.

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See also Jeremiah 6:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 6:8. _BE THOU INSTRUCTED_] Still there is respite: if they would even now return unto the Lord with all their heart, the advancing Chaldeans would be arrested on their march and turned...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BE THOU INSTRUCTED - Be thou chastised: learn the lesson which chastisement is intended to teach thee. LEST MY SOUL - Lest I Myself - not “depart from thee,” God does not willingly leave His people,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MY SOUL. I myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Scythians would not make their approaches to the city in this fashion, while the absence of metre makes us hesitate to take the passage as inserted by the prophet in Jehoiakim's time, when the Cha...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _instructed_ rather, _disciplined, corrected_. Cp. Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 5:3. _lest my soul be alienated_ The verb in the original is much stronger, BE WRENCHED. In Genesis 32:25 (Heb. 26) the same...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LEST MY SOUL DEPART FROM THEE— That is to say, "Lest my affections be utterly alienated from thee, so that I cast off all bowels of compassion towards thee, and give thee up to ruin and desolation." H...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _2. The siege of Jerusalem_ (Jeremiah 6:6-8) TRANSLATION (6) For thus says the LORD of hosts: Cut her trees and pour out against Jerusalem a mound! This is the city to be punished; everywhere there i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Tender appeal in the midst of threats. LEST MY SOUL DEPART - Hebrew, 'be torn away...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-8. The hostile army approaches....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BE THOU INSTRUCTED. — Better, _Be thou corrected,_ or, _chastened._ Comp. Psalms 2:10; Leviticus 26:23 (where we have “reformed”); and Proverbs 29:19. LEST MY SOUL. — As in...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִוָּסְרִי֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם פֶּן ־תֵּקַ֥ע נַפְשִׁ֖י מִמֵּ֑ךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Be thou instructed, O (h) Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. (h) He warns them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by repentance....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Instructed, by afflictions and prosperity, by public and internal admonitions. Willful ignorance is criminal, and drives God away, chap. li. 9., and Psalm lxxx. 12._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Though the Prophet had spoken as though there was no remedy for the evils of Jerusalem, he yet exhorts it to seek peace with God, and addresses men past remedy in his name. It is then the same as thou...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND BE THOU INSTRUCTED, O JERUSALEM,.... Or "corrected" s; receive discipline or instructions by chastisements and corrections, return by repentance, that the evils threatened may not come: this shows...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Ver. 8. _Be thou instructed._] Affliction is a schoolmaster, _a_ or rather an usher to...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem_, &c. Take warning by the many threatenings and judgments I have denounced against thee; amend thy ways and doings, lest, if thou persist in thy wickedness, I be utter...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DEPART: _ Heb._ be loosed or disjointed...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BE THOU INSTRUCTED, Heb. _corrected_: q.d. By the correction thou hast felt, and what is threatened, be persuaded to repentance before it be too late, PROVERBS 29:15. God doth here IN THE MIDST OF JUD...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 6:8 instructed H3256 (H8734) Jerusalem H3389 soul H5315 depart H3363 (H8799) make H7760 (H8799) desolate...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 6:1). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest My soul depart from thee._ THE WAY TO PREVENT THE RUIN OF A SINFUL PEOPLE I. The infinite goodness and patience of God towards a sinful people and His great un...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Arise, and let us go up at noon._ CHRISTIAN EFFORT That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our pilgrimage to...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 32:29; Ezekiel 23:18; Hosea 9:12; Jeremiah 17:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Be thou instructed — I would yet willingly spare them if it might be. Depart — Heb. be disjointed, a most emphatical metaphor, whereby God would express how great grief it is to him to withdraw himsel...

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