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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _
2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10)
3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19)
4. The horrible thing ...
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THE SINS OF JERUSALEM. Jeremiah is bidden to seek even one man in
Jerusalem, for whose sake Yahweh may spare the city (_cf._ Genesis
18:16), one man of justice and faithfulness (_mg.) ;_ even the oath...
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SHALL. NOT VISIT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._
MY SOUL. I Myself, for emphasis. Hebrew. _nephesh._ Figure of speech
_Anthropopatheia._
BE AVENGED. avenge herself. Compare Jeremiah 5:29; Jeremiah...
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2. _Sexual impurity_ (Jeremiah 5:7-9)
TRANSLATION
(7) Wherefore should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and
have sworn by no-gods; and when I fed them, then they committed
adultery and t...
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Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
(; ; , "So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of
your doings, and...
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1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
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הַֽ עַל ־אֵ֥לֶּה לֹוא ־אֶפְקֹ֖ד נְאֻם
־יְהֹוָ
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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
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Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now
carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter
corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
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How striking the expostulation? How unanswerably just the appeal? Do
not fail to observe, Reader, that the Lord doth not simply speak of
one nation, or of another, but it is this nation, this people,...
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God again holds, as it were, a conference with them, and for this
purpose, — that he might check all their complaints and close their
mouths, lest they should object and say, that they were too severe...
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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...
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SHALL I NOT VISIT FOR THESE THINGS? SAITH THE LORD,.... For such
adulteries and lasciviousness, and that in a way of punishment. The
Targum adds,
"to bring evil upon them;''
the evil of punishment f...
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Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Ver. 9. _Shall I not visit for these things?_] _i.e., _ Shall I not
take cognizance of...
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_How shall I pardon thee for this?_ How canst thou expect that the
holy God, the righteous Governor and Judge of the world, should
connive at, or bear with, such iniquitous conduct in his intelligent...
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Shall I not visit for these things, punishing the guilty ones to the
limit, SAITH THE LORD, AND SHALL NOT MY SOUL BE AVENGED ON SUCH A
NATION AS THIS? How could His anger be withheld under such
circum...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
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1-9 None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the
Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises.
The poor were ignorant, and therefore they were wicked. Wh...
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VISIT, i.e. punish, PSALMS 89:32. Should I connive at such things, the
wicked would say, I did not see them, or take notice of them, PSALMS
50:21, much to the same purpose with JEREMIAH 5:7, beginning...
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Jeremiah 5:9 punish H6485 (H8799) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 I
H5315 avenge H5358 (H8691) nation...
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YHWH GIVES HIS REASONS WHY JERUSALEM WILL NOT BE PARDONED AND JEREMIAH
MAKES A VAIN SEARCH FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN (JEREMIAH 5:1).
YHWH now vindicates His decision to bring inevitable judgment. He
assures...
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YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH
5:1).
Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in
Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against
them and the judgments threatened.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
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Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear
falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not
sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his
perf...
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_Shall I not visit for these things?_
UNSANCTIFIED AFFLICTION FOLLOWED BY HEAVIER JUDGMENTS
The physician, when he findeth that the potion which he hath given his
patient will not work, he seconds it...
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_Run ye. .. and see. .. if ye can find a man._
A MAN; OR, THE DIVINE IDEAL UNREALISED
I. The Divine idea of a man. One “that executeth Judgment, that
seeketh the truth.” This involves--
1. A righte...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation
leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
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EXPOSITION
Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of
Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate
its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
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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...