Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 7:8
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.
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.
THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9) CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _ 2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16) 3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
THE TEMPLE SERMON. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4). Yahweh desi...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....
_that cannot profit_ Or perhaps, _so that ye profit not_....
See introd. note on the section....
B. A Fallacious Assumption Jeremiah 7:8-11 TRANSLATION (8) Behold, you are trusting in the words of the worthless lie. (9) Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, sware falsely, offer incense to Baa...
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. LYING WORDS THAT CANNOT PROFIT. Maurer translates. 'so that you profit nothing' (see , "lying words;" )....
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
LYING WORDS. — With special reference to those already cited in Jeremiah 7:4....
הִנֵּ֤ה אַתֶּם֙ בֹּטְחִ֣ים לָכֶ֔ם עַל ־דִּבְרֵ֖י...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
From what is said in these verses of men talking as if delivered to do evil, it should seem, that there were in the Prophet's days, as well as in ours, persons who took occasion from the doctrine of f...
_‘A REFUGE OF LIES’_ ‘Lying words, that cannot profit.’ Jeremiah 7:8 I. GOD TEARS OPEN THE ‘LYING WORDS’ OF MANY WHO WORSHIP HIM, AND WHAT DOES HE FIND?—Hypocrisy, fraud, a festering mass of corrup...
He again teaches what we observed yesterday, — that the glorying of the Jews was foolish, while they boasted of the Temple and of their sacrifices to God. He calls their boastings the words of falseho...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
BEHOLD, YE TRUST IN LYING WORDS,.... What they are dissuaded from, Jeremiah 7:4, is here affirmed they did, and which is introduced with a note of asseveration, attention, and admiration; it being a c...
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Ver. 8. _Behold, ye trust, &c._] See on Jeremiah 7:4 ....
_Behold, ye trust in lying words_ Uttered by your false prophets, who promise you peace, and sooth you up in your impenitence. _Will ye steal, murder_, &c. Jeremiah does not charge them with the trans...
1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the prac...
BEHOLD; take notice of it, and think of it seriously. YE TRUST IN LYING WORDS; either flattering yourselves with your own conceits, whereby, in your discourses, you strengthen one another; or dependin...
Jeremiah 7:8 trust H982 (H8802) lying H8267 words H1697 profit H3276 (H8687) ye trust - Jeremiah
JUDAH MUST NOT TRUST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TEMPLE FOR SECURITY BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THEIR EVIL WAYS YHWH INTENDS TO DO TO THE TEMPLE WHAT HE DID TO HIS HOUSE AT SHILOH, DESTROY IT (JEREMIAH 7:1). A...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
Jeremiah 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...
CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming desolations because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast themselves...
Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:1 False Religion and an Idolatrous People. These chapters give evidence of the truth of God’s accusations in chs. Jeremiah 2:1. Judah takes com
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_ regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in r...
Ezekiel 13:6; Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 14:13; Jer