Let Judah beware while there is time
The prophet bids them acknowledge Jehovah, by submission and obedience, before they are overtaken by the blackness of national overthrow. Otherwise (says Jeremiah) I will in silent grief witness your ruin.
BE NOT PROUD - Both the symbols were of a nature very humiliating to the national self-respect....
CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
ISRAEL'S PRIDE. The prophet warns against the arrogancy that persistently refuses to obey (_i.e._ give glory to; _cf._ 1 Samuel 6:5) Yahweh, and compares the disobedient with travellers on mountain pa...
YE. Now addressing all. HATH SPOKEN. Jehovah's words, not Jeremiah's....
DISCOURSE: 1048 A CALL TO REPENTANCE [Note: Preached February, 1801.] Jeremiah 13:15. Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause da...
C. WARNING: Pride Brings On Darkness Jeremiah 13:15-17 TRANSLATION (15) Hear and give ear! Do not be so high and mighty; for the LORD has spoken. (16) Give to the LORD your God glory before He causes...
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. BE NOT PROUD - pride was the cause of their contumacy, as humility is the first step to obedience (; )....
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
BE NOT PROUD. — With special reference to the besetting sin of Judah, as described in Jeremiah 13:9; perhaps also to the character of the symbols applied — the marred girdle and the broken jar — as be...
שִׁמְע֥וּ וְ הַאֲזִ֖ינוּ אַל ־תִּגְבָּ֑הוּ כִּ֥י...
CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...
The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
Who can read this account of the mournful prophet, but must revere his memory? Oh! how delightful is it to behold a faithful pastor, taking interest in all that concerns his people! But while the memo...
The Prophet shews here more fully what we have stated, — that so refractory was the temper of those with whom he had to do, that it was necessary to use various means to subdue them. And it was not in...
Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
HEAR YE, AND GIVE EAR,.... Both to what goes before, and what follows after. The words doubled denote the closest and strictest attention: BE NOT PROUD; haughty, scornful, as above all instruction, a...
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. Ver. 15. _Hear, and give ear._] Or, Hear and hearken, be not naughty. Here the prophet calleth upon them again to repent, and to that en...
_Hear ye_, &c. The prophet proceeds to give them good counsel, which, if it had been taken, the desolation and destruction threatened would have been prevented. _Be not proud_ Pride was one of the sin...
Hear ye and give ear, paying close attention to the Lord's warning; BE NOT PROUD, chiefly in disregarding the rebuke of Jehovah, FOR THE LORD HATH SPOKEN....
AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
12-17 As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the sins of the people made them vessels of wrath, fitted for the judgments of God; with which they should be filled till they caused each other's...
God ordinarily subjoineth exhortation and counsel to his reproof, if peradventure people will change their hearts and ways. Having threatened them, therefore the prophet speaketh to them, that they wo...
Jeremiah 13:15 Hear H8085 (H8798) ear H238 (H8685) proud H1361 (H8799) LORD H3068 spoken H1696 ...
A FINAL APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, FOR IF THEY DO FAIL TO RESPOND THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT WILL COME UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 13:15). The people are called on to look to YHWH while there is s...
CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...
Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
_Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken._ JEHOVAH HATH SPOKEN: WILL YE NOT HEAR? I. There is a revelation. “For the Lord hath spoken.” 1. The voice which we are bidden to hea...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:15 BE NOT PROUD. Jeremiah urges Judah to repent. DARKNESS. A common ancient Near Eastern symbol of judgment. MY EYES WILL WEEP. Once again, Jeremi
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
Acts 4:19; Acts 4:20; Amos 7:15; Isaiah 28:14; Isaiah 42:23;...