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DO THEY NOT PROVOKE ... - literally, Is it not themselves (“that
they provoke”) to the shame of their faces?...
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THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9)
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _
2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16)
3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
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THE WORSHIP OF ASTARTE. The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a
people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved
ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and more fu...
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See introd. note on the section and cp. Jeremiah 15:1. It is hardly
probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address, seeing that it
gives us in fact Jehovah's words to His prophet abruptly insert...
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II. PAGAN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:16-20
The worship in Jerusalem was so corrupt that God instructs Jeremiah to
cease interceding for the apostates (Jeremiah 7:16). The depravity of
the nation is further de...
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Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
DO THEY PROVOKE ME TO ANGER? SAITH THE LORD: DO THEY NOT PROVOKE
THEMSELVES IN THE C...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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DO THEY PROVOKE ME] Their sin does not provoke God to a mere helpless
anger, but to a wrath that is quick to punish and destroy them.
21-28. The moral law has always taken precedence of the ceremonia...
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DO THEY NOT PROVOKE THEMSELVES...? — The interpolated words, though
they complete the sense, mar the abrupt force of the Hebrew. _Is it
not themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
_...
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הַ אֹתִ֛י הֵ֥ם מַכְעִסִ֖ים נְאֻם
־יְהוָ֑ה הֲ
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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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With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet
commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first
denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
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Here is a very solemn scripture indeed, in which the Lord forbids his
servant even to pray for the people. And there is another solemn
scripture suitable to be read together, Ezekiel 16:42. When the L...
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He then subjoins, _Do they provoke me, and not rather to the shame of
their own faces? _God here intimates, that however reproachfully the
Jews acted towards him, they yet brought no loss to him, for...
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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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DO THEY PROVOKE ME TO ANGER? SAITH THE LORD,.... No: he cannot be
provoked to anger as men are; anger does not fall upon him as it does
on men; there is no such affection in God as there is in men; hi...
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Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke]
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Ver. 19. _Do they provoke me to anger?_] _i.e., _ Hurt they me by
their provocatio...
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_Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah_ Thou canst not
pass along the streets, but thou must needs be an eye witness of their
abominations, committed openly and publicly in the face of th...
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THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
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Do they provoke Me to anger? saith the Lord. Do they truly believe
that they can aggrieve Him by such acts? Will they reduce the bliss
which He enjoys? DO THEY NOT PROVOKE THEMSELVES, bringing grief a...
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THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
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17-20 The Jews took pride in showing zeal for their idols. Let us
learn to be earnest in the service of our God, even from this bad
example. Let us think it an honour to be employed in any work for G...
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Do they think to grieve me, and trouble my mind? They are deceived, I
am without passion, and can be without their offerings. Will not they
themselves feel the smart of it? JEREMIAH 7:6. Will they not...
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Jeremiah 7:19 anger H3707 (H8688) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 shame
H1322 faces H6440
they provoke -...
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YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND
WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE,
BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...
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CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming
desolations because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast
themselves...
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Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the
people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force
of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:1 False Religion and an Idolatrous
People. These chapters give evidence of the truth of God’s
accusations in chs. Jeremiah 2:1. Judah takes com
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_
regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s
reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
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EXPOSITION
Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements
of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this
discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
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So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of
Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the
temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in
r...
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1 Corinthians 10:22; Daniel 9:7; Daniel 9:8; Deuteronomy 32:16;...