Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 3:13
Acknowledge - literally, “know thy iniquity;” know that thy doings are iniquitous.
Scattered thy ways - Wandered in search of those idolatries which foreign nations practice.
Acknowledge - literally, “know thy iniquity;” know that thy doings are iniquitous.
Scattered thy ways - Wandered in search of those idolatries which foreign nations practice.
THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED (3:6-6:30) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The contrast between backslidden Israel and treacherous Judah (Jeremiah 3:6) _ 2. The call to return and the promised glory ...
ISRAEL'S SIN LESS THAN JUDAH'S. This passage interrupts the continuity of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate pr...
ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE, &C. This from the first was, and still is, the one condition of national blessing for Israel. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:40; Leviticus 26:42). TRANSGRESSED. rebelled. SC...
Dr. (with Co. and others) points out that here the word "Israel" is used in its restricted sense for the ten tribes, whereas in Jeremiah 2:1 to Jeremiah 3:5 it meant the people as a whole, and he infe...
Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration We may subdivide thus. (1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are invited to repent and return. (2)...
In spite of (i) greater privileges, (_a_) succession of kings of the same family, (_b_) the Temple, (_c_) Levites; (ii) the warning example of Israel, Judah has proved faithless and hypocritical as we...
_hast scattered thy ways_ hast wandered hither and thither. Cp. Jeremiah 2:23. _strangers_ foreign gods. Cp. Jeremiah 2:25....
DISCOURSE: 1033 GOD’S INVITATION TO HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 3:12. Go, and proclaim these words toward the north; and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger t...
C. The Call to Repentance Jeremiah 3:11-14 TRANSLATION (11) And the LORD said unto me, More righteous is Backsliding Israel than Treacherous Judah. (12) Go and call these words to the north and say,...
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the...
3:13 thither (d-20) Lit. 'hast scattered thy ways.' strangers (e-23) i.e. false gods....
JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO JUDAH In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE... — This was the one sufficient, indispensable condition of pardon — the confession that kept nothing back, and made no vain excuses. HAST SCATTERED THY WAYS. — The phrase is a stron...
אַ֚ךְ דְּעִ֣י עֲוֹנֵ֔ךְ כִּ֛י בַּ יהוָ֥ה אֱלֹ
CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray o...
PLEADING WITH FAITHLESS CHILDREN Jeremiah 3:11-25; Jeremiah 4:1-2 The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because their privil...
Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast (p) scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the...
_Ways, dividing thy love, and adoring idols with me._...
Nothing can more highly illustrate the riches of grace, than what is here said, on the subject of divine mercy. Israel was about to go into Babylon, and there the Prophet is particularly directed to p...
God lays down here a condition, lest hypocrites, relying on his goodness, should become more and more hardened, and yet think that he is bound as it were to them; for they usually reason thus, — “God...
Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign goo...
ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINE INIQUITY,.... Or, "know" e it; unless a man knows his sin, and is convicted of it, he will never repent of it, or turn from it; and when he is made sensible of it, and sorry for...
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the L...
_Go, and proclaim these words toward the north_ “The sin of the ten tribes being attended with more favourable circumstances than that of Judah, the prophet is commanded to call them to repentance wit...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, freely confessing her transgressions and her guilt, THAT THOU HAST TRANSGRESSED AGAINST THE LORD, THY GOD, against whom, in the last analysis, every sin is directed, A...
12-20 See God's readiness to pardon sin, and the blessings reserved for gospel times. These words were proclaimed toward the north; to Israel, the ten tribes, captive in Assyria. They are directed ho...
ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINE INIQUITY; which will be the evidence of thy repentance, without which thou canst not lay claim to any pardon, PROVERBS 28:13 ISAIAH 55:7. This is spoken by way of limitation, le...
Jeremiah 3:13 acknowledge H3045 (H8798) iniquity H5771 transgressed H6586 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 scattered H6340
A BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM (JEREMIAH 3:12). Having established that Judah was even more guilty than Israel YHWH now breaks into the message of gloom by demo...
Jeremiah 3:12. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LO...
Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because they forsook the living God, and went after idols neglected hi...
In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah. Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
_Return, thou backsliding Israel._ THE BACKSLIDER’S RETURN I. The invitation to return. 1. From one who (1) has been wronged (Jeremiah 3:13); (2) might therefore justly be angry; (3) but is “mer...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5, although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapter...
EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
They say (Jeremiah 3:1), That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy. If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto...
1 John 1:8; Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 30:1; Ezekiel 16:15;...
Strangers — To other gods, or to idols, running here and there up and down....