Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 3:5
Verse Jeremiah 3:5. Will he reserve his anger for ever?] Why should not wrath be continued against thee, as thou continuest transgression against the Lord?
Verse Jeremiah 3:5. Will he reserve his anger for ever?] Why should not wrath be continued against thee, as thou continuest transgression against the Lord?
Rather, “Will he, the young husband,” retain, “keep up His anger forever!” These words should be joined to Jeremiah 3:4. BEHOLD ... - Rather, “Behold, thou hast spoken” thus, but thou hast “done evil...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
ISRAEL'S INFIDELITY. (Some introductory formula, like that of Jeremiah 2:1, has dropped out before Jeremiah 3:1; note _mg.)._ Israel's marital unfaithfulness to Yahweh is too gross for a facile repent...
RESERVE. Hebrew. _natar._ Occurs in Jer. only here and in Jeremiah 3:12 ("keep"). HIS ANGER. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (Absolute). App-6. EVIL THINGS. the evil things. Hebrew. _ra'a',_ as in Jerem...
The continued expression of Israel's ill-founded confidence and God's reply. _thou hast spoken, etc_.] rather (as mg.) _thou hast spoken_thus, _but hast done, etc_. _hast had thy way_ Heb. _been abl...
BEHOLD, &C.— _Behold, thou hadst but spoken, and didst wickedly, and with all thy might._ Houbigant renders this whole verse, _Shall these things therefore be dissembled, and covered in perpetual sile...
II. GOD'S APPEAL To HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 3:1 to Jeremiah 4:4 After the blistering indictment of his inaugural sermon Jeremiah takes up the subject of repentance. He speaks here of (1) the possibility o...
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. HE - `thou,' the second person had preceded,"My Father, thou," etc. ...
3:5 determined. (a-26) Or 'hast known how to carry them out.' lit. 'thou prevailest,' Genesis 32:28 ....
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...
WILL HE RESERVE HIS ANGER FOR EVER...? — The questions were such as might well be asked in the first burst of sorrowing though superficial repentance. The implied answer was in the negative, “No, He w...
הֲ יִנְטֹ֣ר לְ עֹולָ֔ם אִם ־יִשְׁמֹ֖ר לָ
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menac...
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...
_Wilt. Hebrew, "will he," &c. The faithless people will not use this language, but do all the evil possible._...
This is a most beautiful and gracious observation of the Lord's, to show, what might be reasonably expected, from the overwhelming kindness of the Lord. When grace becomes more abundant, it overpowers...
God shews that it was the fault of the Jews, that he did not receive them into favor. And here he takes the argument from his own nature, and speaks of himself in the third person; and it is the same...
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...
WILL HE RESERVE HIS ANGER FOR EVER?.... These words may be considered as a continuation of the speech put into their mouths to make to the Lord and plead with him, as well as what follows: WILL HE KE...
Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. Ver. 5. _Will he reserve his anyer for ever?_] Will he not? Nah 1:2...
_Wilt thou not from this time_ Namely, that I have withholden showers, this time of conviction and correction; now that thou hast been made to see thy sins, and to smart for them, wilt thou not forsak...
THE POSSIBILITY OF RETURN...
Will He reserve His anger forever? Will He keep it to the end? Israel implies that her misfortune, by which she was receiving an everlasting mark, was due entirely to the Lord's unreasonable anger. Bu...
1-5 In repentance, it is good to think upon the sins of which we have been guilty, and the places and companies where they have been committed. How gently the Lord had corrected them! In receiving pe...
WILL HE RESERVE HIS ANGER FOR EVER? here being a defect of the noun, the Jews supply it with _thy sin_, ISAIAH 43:25, but the most and best, as we do, HIS ANGER. Compare it with Jeremiah 3:12 Psalms 1...
Jeremiah 3:5 remain H5201 (H8799) forever H5769 keep H8104 (H8799) end H5331 spoken H1696 (H8765) done...
YHWH LAYS DOWN HIS FINAL TERMS (JEREMIAH 3:1). The latter rains have failed to come because they have been faithless to YHWH, something that is evident to anyone who will look to the bare hills or the...
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 again to Me, saith the Lord._ THE BACKSLIDER INVITED TO RETURN We have here a wonderful display of God’s character: forbearance, pity, and love. I. What is inferred. A departure from God....
_Thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest._ THE LIMITATION OF EVIL I. Some of the restraining influences of life. “As thou couldest.” By many considerations we are restrained from fulf...
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...
Ezekiel 22:6; Isaiah 57:16; Isaiah 64:9; Jeremiah 3:12; Micah 2:1;...
Will he — Will he not be reconciled?...