Jeremiah 7:1-7
GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE... [ Continue Reading ]
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, the fact that he received his messages by inspiration of God being brought out time and again, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, very likely that which led from the outer court to the Court of Israel, AND PROCLAIM THERE THIS WORD, where the worshiping multitudes from the entire country might hear him, AND SAY, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, ALL YE OF JUDAH, THAT ENTER IN AT THESE GATES TO WO... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, He whose power and mercy the children of Israel had so often experienced. AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS, their habits of living and the individual acts of their life, AND I WILL CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE, permitting them to continue their res... [ Continue Reading ]
Trust ye not in lying words, in those words of falsehood which were so often dinned in their ears by their wicked leaders, THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, ARE THESE! the various buildings making up the entire Temple. The repetition of the proud cry is intended... [ Continue Reading ]
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings, making a decided stand for a behavior in complete accordance with the holy will of God; IF YE THROUGHLY EXECUTE JUDGMENT BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS NEIGHBOR, so that justice is exercised in all conditions of life, toward all men;... [ Continue Reading ]
if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, the three points which were emphasized time and again in the Law of God, AND SHED NOT INNOCENT BLOOD IN THIS PLACE, throughout Jerusalem and Judah, NEITHER WALK AFTER OTHER GODS TO YOUR HURT, idolatry invariably challenging the punishmen... [ Continue Reading ]
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, permitting them to continue as inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, IN THE LAND THAT I GAVE YOUR FATHERS, FOREVER AND EVER, for a long period of uninterrupted possession. The Lord is eager to show His kindness and mercy to all those who will hearken to Hi... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, ye trust in lying words, those of the false prophets, the hypocritical leaders, THAT CANNOT PROFIT, which brought only harm and the curse upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WARNING EXAMPLE OF SHILOH... [ Continue Reading ]
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, the chief idol of the heathen nations round about, AND WALK AFTER OTHER GODS WHOM YE KNOW NOT, who have never manifested and proved themselves as the true God did, by His words and works,... [ Continue Reading ]
and come and stand before Me in this house, in brazen hypocrisy, Cf Ezekiel 23:39, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, AND SAY, WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS? They believed that, in spite of the threats announced by the prophet, they had nothing to fear, that the calamities which Jeremiah in... [ Continue Reading ]
Is this house, which is called by My name, the Temple where Jehovah revealed Himself, BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS IN YOUR EYES? a place where they feel safe with their loot, a refuge where they hope to plan further abominations. BEHOLD, EVEN I HAVE SEEN IT, SAITH THE LORD, namely, the fact that this abu... [ Continue Reading ]
But go ye now unto My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, namely, when the Tabernacle was erected there, Deuteronomy 12:11; Joshua 18:1, AND SEE WHAT I DID TO IT FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL. Because the northern nation persisted in its idolatrous practices, the Lo... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, becoming guilty of the various forms of wickedness which He has enumerated in His reproofs, AND I SPAKE UNTO YOU, RISING UP EARLY, in His earnest zeal for their welfare, AND SPEAKING, BUT YE HEARD NOT, AND I CALLED YOU, BUT YE ANSWERED N... [ Continue Reading ]
therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by My name, wherein ye trust, placing their confidence in the external building, AND UNTO THE PLACE WHICH I GAVE TO YOU AND TO YOUR FATHERS, AS I HAVE DONE TO SHILOH. As the Lord had ceased to dwell in the midst of the disobedient Israelites, when... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will cast you out of My sight, completely disowning them, AS I HAVE CAST OUT ALL YOUR BRETHREN, descendants of the same forefather, Abraham, EVEN THE WHOLE SEED OF EPHRAIM, the ten tribes. The evidences of the goodness of the Lord are intended at all times to lead men to repentance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore pray not thou for this people, the Lord expressly forbidding the prophet to make intercession for the reprobate nation, NEITHER LIFT UP CRY NOR PRAYER FOR THEM, NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO ME; FOR I WILL NOT HEAR THEE. As strong as the prayers of the righteous are in holding back the wrat... [ Continue Reading ]
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS... [ Continue Reading ]
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The wickedness which Jeremiah was obliged to witness wherever he looked was bound to convince him that the course of the Lord was right, that He was fully justified in rejecting all prayers made in behalf of the apos... [ Continue Reading ]
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven, the female goddess Ashtoreth, or Astarte, the counterpart of the male idol Baal, in whose honor the cakes, made of honey, fine flour, and other ingredients, bore a round,... [ Continue Reading ]
Do they provoke Me to anger? saith the Lord. Do they truly believe that they can aggrieve Him by such acts? Will they reduce the bliss which He enjoys? DO THEY NOT PROVOKE THEMSELVES, bringing grief and sorrow upon their own heads, TO THE CONFUSION OF THEIR OWN, FACES? That is ever the consequence o... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Jehovah, the All-powerful: BEHOLD, MINE ANGER AND MY FURY SHALL BE POURED OUT UPON THIS PLACE, upon Jerusalem, as the center of His nation and from there over the entire land, UPON MAN, AND UPON BEAST, on the cattle owned by them, AND UPON THE TREES OF THE FIELD,... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, still the Lord of those who are truly His Israel, His people, but who here addresses the apostate nation: PUT YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO YOUR SACRIFICES, the former, which were required to be wholly burned, being mingled with the latter, of which only... [ Continue Reading ]
For I spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices, it was not His object to establish a mere external worship without true piety of the heart,... [ Continue Reading ]
but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people, that being the fundamental principle upon which the entire relation between God and Israel was built up, AND WALK YE IN ALL THE WAYS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU THAT IT MAY BE WELL UNTO YOU. All... [ Continue Reading ]
But they hearkened not, they ignored the Lord and His precepts entirely, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR, they did not even attempt to listen, BUT WALKED IN THE COUNSELS AND IN THE IMAGINATION, the stubbornness, OF THEIR EVIL HEART AND WENT BACKWARD AND NOT FORWARD, literally, "they were to the back and not... [ Continue Reading ]
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, beginning with Moses, the servant of Jehovah, I HAVE EVEN SENT UNTO YOU ALL MY SERVANTS, THE PROPHETS, DAILY RISING UP EARLY AND SENDING THEM, with unremitting diligence and eager kindliness;... [ Continue Reading ]
yet they hearkened not unto Me nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck, like a stubborn ox under the yoke, Deuteronomy 31:27; THEY DID WORSE THAN THEIR FATHERS, the later generations, particularly that now addressed, being much farther removed from the true service of Jehovah than the genera... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thou shall speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to thee, Jeremiah would have as little success as the other prophets had had; THOU SHALL ALSO CALL UNTO THEM, BUT THEY WILL NOT ANSWER THEE, being utterly indifferent to the Word of the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord, their God, being therefore classed with the Gentile nations, NOR RECEIVETH CORRECTION, hardened to the point that all rebukes make no impression upon them; TRUTH IS PERISHED, all reliability, all fidelity is lost,... [ Continue Reading ]
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, shearing it off as the sign of the deepest mourning, Jerusalem here being considered a virgin consecrated to the Lord, AND CAST IT AWAY AND TAKE UP A LAMENTATION ON HIGH PLACES, on account of the uncleanness and desecration of her guilt; FOR THE LORD HATH REJECTED AN... [ Continue Reading ]
For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight, saith the Lord, things which are loathsome before His eyes; THEY HAVE SET THEIR ABOMINATIONS, altars for the host of heaven and graven images of various idols, 2 Kings 21:4, IN THE HOUSE WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME TO POLLUTE IT. Jeremiah 32:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they have built the high places of Tophet, idolatrous altars with their sanctuaries at this point, WHICH IS IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, southwest of Jerusalem, TO BURN THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS IN THE FIRE, in the terrible child sacrifices made in honor of Moloch; WHICH I COMMANDED... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called, Tophet, nor the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, or Ben-hinnom, BUT THE VALLEY OF SLAUGHTER, a name applied to it as the result of the great number of burials of Jews slaughtered in the siege of the city; FOR THEY SHALL B... [ Continue Reading ]
And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, the birds of prey, particularly the buzzards, feeding on the unburied corpses, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND NONE SHALL FRAY THEM AWAY, no person being present then to frighten them away from their loathsome repast.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the reference being made to the joyous processions in the Orient in which the bride and the bridegroom are led t... [ Continue Reading ]