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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 13:17

The Lord’s flock - The people carried away captive with Jeconiah formed the Jewish Church, as we are expressly told, whereas Zedekiah and the people of Jerusalem possessed only the externals of the Church and not its reality. It is for this reason that the seventy years’ exile counts from Jeconiah’s captivity.

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See also Jeremiah 13:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 13:17. _MY SOUL SHALT WEEP IN SECRET PLACES_] If you will not hearken to the Lord, there is no remedy: destruction must come; and there is nothing left for me, but to go in secret, and...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MY SOUL. Me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ WEEP... WEEP SORE... RUNDOWN. Figure of speech _Anabasis._ App-6. RUN DOWN, &C. Compare Matthew 26:38; Luke 19:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Lord's flock_ As the rulers are called elsewhere (Jeremiah 2:8 mg., Jeremiah 3:15; Jeremiah 6:3) shepherds (pastors), so the ruled are the flock. Cp. Psa

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEAR IT— The prophet declares, that after having done all he could to cause the people to return to their duty, without success, nothing farther would remain for him, but to lay asi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive. HEAR IT - m...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IN SECRET PLACES] The prophet will mourn apart, as he did in Jehoiakim's reign....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MY SOUL SHALL WEEP IN SECRET PLACES FOR YOUR PRIDE. — The words present no difficulty that requires explanation, but deserve to be noted in their exquisite tenderness as characteristic of the prophet’...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִם֙ לֹ֣א תִשְׁמָע֔וּהָ בְּ מִסְתָּרִ֥ים ת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall (f) weep in secret places for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive. (f) Yo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _My soul. Jeremias can do no more. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "your soul,...your eyes," &c. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet had indirectly threatened them; but yet there was some hope of pardon, provided the Jews anticipated God’s judgment in time and humbled themselves before him. He now declares more clearly...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEAR IT,.... The advice and exhortation now given, to repent of sin, be humble before God, and glorify him: MY SOUL SHALL WEEP IN SECRET PLACES FOR YOUR PRIDE; he would no more act...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive. Ver. 17. _My...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But if ye will not hear it, refusing him obedience in his appeal, MY SOUL SHALL WEEP IN SECRET PLACES FOR YOUR PRIDE, such being the effect which their obstinacy would have upon him who was so sincere...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That is, if you will not listen to what I say, take heed to what I say, and obey the counsel which I give you, I shall seriously and secretly mourn for your rebellion and obstinacy, which is rooted in...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 13:17 hear H8085 (H8799) soul H5315 weep H1058 (H8799) secret H4565 for H6440 pride H1466 eyes...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Give glory to the Lord your God._ I. Counsel. “Give glory to the Lord.” 1. Because the Lord’s glory is man’s good. 2. Because in them that glory might appear. 3. Because by them that glory might...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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.,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 15:35; Ezekiel 34:31; Ezekiel 36:38;...

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