Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause (d) darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for (e) light, he shall turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
(d) That is, affliction and misery by the Babylonians, (Isaiah 8:22).
(e) Meaning, for help and support of the Egyptians.
Verse Jeremiah 13:16. _GIVE GLORY TO - GOD_] Confess your sins and turn to him, that these sore evils may be averted. _WHILE YE LOOK FOR LIGHT_] While ye expect _prosperity_, he turned it into the _s...
THE DARK MOUNTAINS - Rather, “the mountains of twilight.” Judah is not walking upon the safe highway, but upon dangerous mountains: and the dusk is closing round her. While then the light still serves...
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
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...
DARKNESS. Hebrew. _nephesh._. _Homonym,_ with two meanings (darkness and daylight). See note on 1 Samuel 30:17....
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...
The figure is that of mountain travellers overtaken by darkness. Unable to advance without danger of falling, they at first await hopefully the dawn, but instead of light there supervenes only deeper...
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...
GIVE GLORY TO THE LORD— That is to say, "Confess your faults, and humble yourselves under his mighty hand, before he bring upon you the night of affliction; before the time come, when ye shall be forc...
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...
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross d...
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,...
GIVE GLORY] a Hebrew idiom, meaning, confess your sins: cp. Joshua 7:19; John 9:24. Danger, difficulty, and gloom are near....
GIVE GLORY TO THE LORD YOUR GOD. — Probably in the same sense as in Joshua 7:19 and John 9:24, perhaps also in Malachi 2:2, “give glory by confessing the truth, even though that truth be a sin that in...
תְּנוּ֩ לַ יהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֤ם כָּבֹוד֙ בְּ טֶ
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...
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...
CHAPTER XIII. _ Dark. John xii. 35. --- Mountains, beyond the Euphrates, resembling clouds._...
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...
Jeremiah pursues the subject, which we began to explain yesterday, for he saw that the Jews were but little moved by what he taught them. He bid them. to regard what he said as coming from God, and to...
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...
GIVE GLORY TO THE LORD YOUR GOD,.... By confessing sin unto him; by humiliation for it before him; by believing what he says, hearkening to his word, and obeying his commands, and living to his honour...
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gros...
_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...
Give glory to the Lord, your God, to Him who has given abundant evidence of His godhead and of His loving-kindness to Judah, BEFORE HE CAUSE DARKNESS, bringing misfortune upon His people, AND BEFORE Y...
AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
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...
Glorify God, by a humble confession of your sins, JOSHUA 7:19,20, by submitting yourselves to God, JAMES 4:7, humbling yourselves under his word, JAMES 4:10, and under his mighty hand,...
Jeremiah 13:16 Give H5414 (H8798) glory H3519 LORD H3068 God H430 darkness H2821 (H8686) feet H7272 stumble...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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
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.,...
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...
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...
1 John 2:10; 1 John 2:11; 1 Peter 2:8; 1 Samuel 6:5; Amos 8:10;...
Give glory — Glorify God, by an humble confession of your sins, by submitting yourselves to God, humbling yourselves under his word, and under his mighty hand, before God brings upon you, his great an...