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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Jeremiah 17:12-18

This passage seems to be a break in the midst of the Prophet's sermon, in which he fervently addresseth the Lord in prayer, and a blessed prayer it is. It needs no comment: for it is as plain as it is earnest. These are blessed interruptions to preaching, when the Man of God leaves off for a moment speaking to his people, from God in order to speak for his people to God.

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See also Jeremiah 17:12-18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 17:12. _A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE_] As he is _cursed_ who trusts in man, so he is _blessed_ who trusts in GOD. He is here represented as on a throne in his temple; to him in the _means of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin. Jeremiah 17:6 LIKE THE HEATH - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section. This sub-section is made up of three isolated pieces, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; the metres also varying....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These verses, the third of the small group of isolated pieces (see above) which compose this sub-section, are probably to be taken in close connexion, the whole of Jeremiah 17:12 being in form an invo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE— As in the preceding verses was set forth the vain dependence of him who seeks to advance himself by indirect methods; so here we are taught the solid foundation which he builds...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    V. PROPHETIC PRAYER Jeremiah 17:12-18 TRANSLATION (12) O throne of glory exalted from the beginning, the place of our sanctuary! (13) O hope of Israel, the LORD! All that forsake You shall be put to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE - the temple of Jerusalem, the throne of Yahweh. Having condemned false objects, of trust, "high plac...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PLACE OF OUR SANCTUARY] i.e. Zion, where Jehovah's glory abode....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE... — The verse is better taken in connection with the following, and not, as the interpolated “is” makes it, as a separate sentence, the nouns being all in the vocative. _Thou t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּסֵּ֣א כָבֹ֔וד מָרֹ֖ום מֵֽ רִאשֹׁ֑ון מְקֹ֖ום...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human aid, wit...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    A glorious (l) high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary. (l) Showing that the godly ought to glory in nothing, but in God who exalts his, and has left a sign of his favour in hi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Throne. The temple. We may also read "O high," &c., chap. xiv. 21._...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    No doubt the Prophet refers to the singular favor which God granted the Jews, when he chose for himself an habitation among them. It was an incomparable honor when God was pleased to dwell in the mids...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE FROM THE BEGINNING IS THE PLACE OF OUR SANCTUARY. The temple, which was a sanctified place, where the holy God dwelt, his holy worship was observed, and his holy people met toge...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary. Ver. 12. _A glorious high throne from the beginning._] Therefore it is best to "trust in God at all times, ye people, and to...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A glorious high throne_, &c. “As in the preceding verses was set forth the vain dependance of him who seeks to advance himself by indirect methods; so here we are taught the solid foundation which he...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Depth of the Nation's Corruption...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our Sanctuary, or, in the form of an address directed to the seat of God's majesty, "Thou throne of glory, loftiness from the beginning, place...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-18 The prophet acknowledges the favour of God in setting up religion. There is fulness of comfort in God, overflowing, ever-flowing fulness, like a fountain. It is always fresh and clear, like spr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is much more hard to give an account of the connexion of these words with the former, than of their sense considered absolutely in themselves. Some would have them the words of the people, reckonin...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 17:12 glorious H3519 high H4791 throne H3678 beginning H7223 place H4725 sanctuary H4720...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH ESTABLISHES HIS OWN POSITION AND CALLS FOR VINDICATION (JEREMIAH 17:12). Jeremiah exults in the glory of the significance of the Temple as YHWH's throne, and as the one place where YHWH was t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 17:12 I. Man's Refuge. No creature so much needs the shelter and defence of a safe hiding-place as man. His sources of danger are more than can be numbered, and with an infected nature he tr...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:_ It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is wr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary._ OUR SANCTUARY This book of Jeremiah is a very thorny one--it might be called, like his smaller work, “The Book of Lamentatio...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 17:12 GLORIOUS THRONE. The temple (Jeremiah 14:21;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 2:5; 2 Chronicles 2:6; Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 43:7;...

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