"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 darkness."
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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...
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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...
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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 (Jeremiah 13:22)...
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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...
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DARKNESS. Hebrew. _nephesh._. _Homonym,_ with two meanings (darkness
and daylight). See note on 1 Samuel 30:17....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 cause...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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תְּנוּ֩ לַ יהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֤ם
כָּבֹוד֙ בְּ טֶ֣רֶם יַחְשִׁ֔ךְ וּ בְ
טֶ֛רֶם יִֽתְנַגְּפ֥וּ רַגְלֵיכֶ֖ם
עַל...
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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," with...
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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...
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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,...
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CHAPTER XIII.
_ Dark. John xii. 35. --- Mountains, beyond the Euphrates, resembling
clouds._...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
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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
d...
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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, 1 PETER 5:6, be...
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Jeremiah 13:16 Give H5414 (H8798) glory H3519 LORD H3068 God H430
darkness H2821 (H8686) feet H7272 stumble H5062 (H8691) dark H5399
mountains H2022 looking H6960 (H8765) light H216 turns H7760 (H8804...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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, Jeremiah expresses grief (compa...
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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.,...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 2:10; 1 John 2:11; 1 Peter 2:8; 1 Samuel 6:5; Amos 8:10; Amos
8:9; Ecclesiastes 11:8; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ecclesiastes 12:2; Exodus
10:21
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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...