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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Jeremiah 16:17

God is of purer eyes than that he can behold iniquity in any so as to approve it, and therefore though he be long patient, yet he will at last punish evil-doers; for his eyes behold them, their sins are open in his sight, and he particularly observeth men's actions, that he may render unto every one according to his works.

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See also Jeremiah 16:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This chastisement arises not from caprice, but is decreed upon full knowledge and examination of their doings....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Explanation on Behalf of the Prophet Jeremiah 16:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no more be said, As the LORD lives who brought us up fr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. MINE EYES ARE UPON ALL THEIR WAYS - (; ; , "The eyes of the Lord are in every pla...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MINE EYES ARE UPON ALL THEIR WAYS. — The context shows that here also the thought is presented on its severer side. The sins of Israel have not escaped the all-seeing eye of Jehovah....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י עֵינַי֙ עַל ־כָּל ־דַּרְכֵיהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א נִ

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

    The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Are not those fishers in allusion to what Christ said of his Apostles, Matthew 4:19. And is not the recompense the Lord is here said to make to their sin, that wound of the spirit, which the Holy Ghos...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet now shews that the grievous calamity of which he had spoken would be a just reward for the wickedness of the people; for we know that the prophets were endued with the Spirit of God not me...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR MINE EYES ARE UPON ALL THEIR WAYS,.... Not only which they may take to hide themselves from their enemies, and where they should be directed to find them; but their evil ways in which they walked,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. Ver. 17. _For mine eyes are upon all their ways._] And though they hide me from t...

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

    _Behold, I will send_, &c. This may be better rendered, _But now I will send_, &c. Because here the prophet returns to denounce threatenings; _many fishers, and they shall fish them_ “It is common wit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, observing their entire conduct; THEY ARE NOT HID FROM MY FACE, NEITHER IS THEIR INIQUITY HID FROM MINE EYES, they are unable to conceal it before His omniscient...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 16:17 eyes H5869 ways H1870 hidden H5641 (H8738) face H6440 iniquity H5771 hidden H6845 (H8738) from...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10). Wit...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9;...

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