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Verse Jeremiah 6:8. _BE THOU INSTRUCTED_] Still there is respite: if
they would even now return unto the Lord with all their heart, the
advancing Chaldeans would be arrested on their march and turned...
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BE THOU INSTRUCTED - Be thou chastised: learn the lesson which
chastisement is intended to teach thee.
LEST MY SOUL - Lest I Myself - not “depart from thee,” God does
not willingly leave His people,...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
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THE SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth,
his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to
gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...
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MY SOUL. I myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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The Scythians would not make their approaches to the city in this
fashion, while the absence of metre makes us hesitate to take the
passage as inserted by the prophet in Jehoiakim's time, when the
Cha...
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_instructed_ rather, _disciplined, corrected_. Cp. Jeremiah 2:30;
Jeremiah 5:3.
_lest my soul be alienated_ The verb in the original is much stronger,
BE WRENCHED. In Genesis 32:25 (Heb. 26) the same...
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LEST MY SOUL DEPART FROM THEE— That is to say, "Lest my affections
be utterly alienated from thee, so that I cast off all bowels of
compassion towards thee, and give thee up to ruin and desolation."
H...
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_2. The siege of Jerusalem_ (Jeremiah 6:6-8)
TRANSLATION
(6) For thus says the LORD of hosts: Cut her trees and pour out
against Jerusalem a mound! This is the city to be punished; everywhere
there i...
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Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest
I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Tender appeal in the midst of threats.
LEST MY SOUL DEPART - Hebrew, 'be torn away...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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BE THOU INSTRUCTED. — Better, _Be thou corrected,_ or, _chastened._
Comp. Psalms 2:10; Leviticus 26:23 (where we have “reformed”); and
Proverbs 29:19.
LEST MY SOUL. — As in...
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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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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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Be thou instructed, O (h) Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee;
lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
(h) He warns them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by
repentance....
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_Instructed, by afflictions and prosperity, by public and internal
admonitions. Willful ignorance is criminal, and drives God away, chap.
li. 9., and Psalm lxxx. 12._...
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I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the
Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the
speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
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Though the Prophet had spoken as though there was no remedy for the
evils of Jerusalem, he yet exhorts it to seek peace with God, and
addresses men past remedy in his name. It is then the same as thou...
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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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AND BE THOU INSTRUCTED, O JERUSALEM,.... Or "corrected" s; receive
discipline or instructions by chastisements and corrections, return by
repentance, that the evils threatened may not come: this shows...
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Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I
make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Ver. 8. _Be thou instructed._] Affliction is a schoolmaster, _a_ or
rather an usher to...
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_Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem_, &c. Take warning by the many
threatenings and judgments I have denounced against thee; amend thy
ways and doings, lest, if thou persist in thy wickedness, I be utter...
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THE ADVICE TO FLEE FROM JERUSALEM...
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Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, so the Lord addresses her in a tender
appeal, LEST MY SOUL DEPART FROM THEE, unwilling as His love is to
take this step, LEST I MAKE THEE DESOLATE, A LAND NOT INHABITE...
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DEPART:
_ Heb._ be loosed or disjointed...
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1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's
judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more
we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean a...
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BE THOU INSTRUCTED, Heb. _corrected_: q.d. By the correction thou hast
felt, and what is threatened, be persuaded to repentance before it be
too late, PROVERBS 29:15. God doth here IN THE MIDST OF JUD...
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Jeremiah 6:8 instructed H3256 (H8734) Jerusalem H3389 soul H5315
depart H3363 (H8799) make H7760 (H8799) desolate...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the reas...
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HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM
(JEREMIAH 6:1).
As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own
tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem,...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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_Arise, and let us go up at noon._
CHRISTIAN EFFORT
That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the
Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our
pilgrimage to...
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_Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest My soul depart from thee._
THE WAY TO PREVENT THE RUIN OF A SINFUL PEOPLE
I. The infinite goodness and patience of God towards a sinful people
and His great un...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 32:29; Ezekiel 23:18; Hosea 9:12; Jeremiah 17:23;...
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Be thou instructed — I would yet willingly spare them if it might
be. Depart — Heb. be disjointed, a most emphatical metaphor, whereby
God would express how great grief it is to him to withdraw himsel...