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Verse Jeremiah 8:4. _MOREOVER THOU SHALT SAY_] Dr. _Blayney_ very
properly observes, "In that part of the prophecy which follows next,
the difference of speakers requires to be attended to; the trans...
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The prophet here resumes from Jeremiah 7:28 the main subject of his
prophecy. He again invites the Jews to repentance.
SHALL THEY FALL? - The argument is that when men fall, they do not lie
upon the g...
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CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _
2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4)
3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13)
4. The prophet's lamentation ...
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JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something
unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no
inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
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ARISE. rise up again.
HE TURN AWAY, AND. The _Massorah_ (vol. II, p. 54, Ginsburg's edition)
calls attention to the fact that of the two words represented by
"turn" and "and", the first letter of the...
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We have had (chs. Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3) a kind of
parenthesis, setting forth the nature of the coming punishment.
Jeremiah now returns to the subject of the conduct which has procured
it....
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Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of
sin
The section may be thus summarized.
(i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to
change, but Israel...
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DISCOURSE: 1041
EXPOSTULATION WITH THE IMPENITENT
Jeremiah 8:4. Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall
they fall, and not arise? Shall he turn away, and not return? Why then
is this peop...
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SHALL HE TURN AWAY— _Or he that turneth away, shall he not return?_
Houbigant renders it, _Shall they who are alienated never return?_ The
similitude, says he, is taken from a man who falls by neglect...
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CHAPTER EIGHT
SERMONS FROM THE EARLY REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 10:25
The oracles in Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 1
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Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they
fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
SHALL THEY FALL, AND NOT ARISE? SHALL HE TURN AWAY, AND NOT RETURN? -
`Is...
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1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
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THEY] RV 'men.' If a man stumble, he will naturally regain his
footing: if he lose his way he will return to it. Not so with this
people....
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SHALL HE TURN. — Better, as both clauses arc indefinite, _Shall men
fall and not arise? Shall one turn away and not return?_ The appeal is
made to the common practice of men. Those who fall struggle t...
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וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר
יְהוָ֔ה...
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Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1
In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is
plainly a fin
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FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE
Jeremiah 8:4-22
This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and
infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the
fight, so were the people set...
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Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen
rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the
people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
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Moreover thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they (c)
fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?
(c) Is there no hope that they will return?...
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_Again. Why then do not the people strive to repent?_...
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Was there ever a more beautiful figure chosen to depicture the extreme
folly of the human understanding, than in the contrast here drawn
between the inconsiderateness of man, and the thoughtfulness of...
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Though God had reminded his Prophet of the event, yet he still invites
the Jews to repentance; not that there was any hope of restoring them
to a right mind, (for he had said that they were wholly
irr...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9.
Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple,
which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without
conscience, wo...
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MOREOVER, THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM,.... The Jews, in Jeremiah's time,
in order to leave them inexcusable, though the Lord had before assured
that they would not hearken to him, Jeremiah 7:27:
THUS SA...
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_Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they
fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?_
Ver. 4. _Shall they fall, and not arise?_] Or, When men fall, will
they n...
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_Moreover, thou shalt say_, &c. The prophet is here directed to set
before the Jews the unreasonableness and folly of their impenitence,
which was the thing that brought this ruin upon them. And he
re...
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THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...
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Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Shall they
fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return? or, "Shall a
man fall and not get up again? Shall one wander off and not retu...
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4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to
reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common
prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...
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MOREOVER THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM; though possibly it be all in vain,
yet thou shalt keep in thy work. SHALL THEY FALL, AND NOT ARISE? an
interrogation that hath the force of a negative, i.e. surely n...
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YHWH EXPRESSES AMAZEMENT AT THE UNWILLINGNESS OF HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN
TO HIM, AND THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS REQUIREMENTS, AND WARNS
THEM THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (JEREMIA...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
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Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments
impending.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of
man cannot serve to k...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in
the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
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_Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding._
A GREAT EVIL AND AN URGENT QUESTION
I. A great evil. “Backsliding.”
1. It is an evil in its nature; it is a great sin...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap.
7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic
address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 8:1
Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been
deceased.
JEREMIAH 8:1
THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies
remain unbur...
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At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inha...
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1 Kings 8:38; Amos 5:2; Ezekiel 18:23; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 6:1;...
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Not arise — Will they never think of rising again? Not return —
Will he wander for ever?...