"Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them."
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Verse Jeremiah 5:14. _BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS WORD_] Because ye thus
treat my message, "I will make my words in thy mouth fire." They have
said _they are but air_; but I will make them _fire_, and a _fi...
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _
2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10)
3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19)
4. The horrible thing (Jeremiah 5:30)
Jeremiah...
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THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard
of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting
His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
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THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ the Elohim of Zebaioth.
Occurs in Jeremiah only here, Jeremiah 15:16; Jeremiah 35:17. and
Jeremiah 49:5....
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See summary at beginning of section....
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3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18)
TRANSLATION
(10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end;
Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For the
house...
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Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this
word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people
wood, and it shall devour them.
BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS WORD....
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1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
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THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. — The solemn name (_Jehovah Elohim Zebaoth_)
used for the second time in Jeremiah’s teaching (Jeremiah 2:19). The
message is partly to the people — “Because _ye_ speak this
word...
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לָכֵ֗ן כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י
צְבָאֹ֔ות יַ֚עַן דַּבֶּרְכֶ֔ם אֶת ־הַ
דָּבָ֖ר הַ זֶּ֑ה הִנְנִ֣י...
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages
of prophecy, two thing...
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Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now
carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter
corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
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Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this
word, behold, I will make my words in (n) thy mouth fire, and this
people wood, and it shall devour them.
(n) Meaning, Jeremiah....
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_Fire. Thou shalt declare their impending ruin._...
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Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, I
will sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, be
dedicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and glo...
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God shews here how intolerable to him was their wantonness in
despising the prophets, through whom he would have himself attended
to. Though Christ did not refer to this passage, when he said,
“He wh...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto t...
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WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS
WORD,.... That it is not the Lord; it is not he that speaks; it is no
prophecy of him, and therefore shall become wind, and come to no...
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_Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this
word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people
wood, and it shall devour them._
Ver. 14. _Because ye speak th...
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_Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts_ The prophet now, in the
name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels,
ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculat...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
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10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so
strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind.
Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
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WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD: these vile wretches having now done
speaking, God begins to speak; and because they had thus slighted the
prophet, and God speaking by him, (as in the next words, BECAUS...
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Jeremiah 5:14 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 hosts H6635 speak
H1696 (H8763) word H1697 make H5414 (H8802) words H1697 mouth H6310
fire H784 people H5971 wood H6086 devour H398 (H8804)
I will...
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YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH
5:1).
Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in
Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
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Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a
full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For
the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
tre...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against
them and the judgments threatened.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
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Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear
falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not
sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his
perf...
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_I will make My words in thy mouth fire._
THE POTENTIAL WORD
Three elements of the power of the Gospel are here found.
I. The I will of the Almighty. That will is an ocean deep and wide as
eternity...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 5:14 GOD OF HOSTS is a title often used to
describe God as a judge (Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 5:16). Jeremiah’s true
and rejected words become a FIRE that will CONSUME the PEOPLE. G...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation
leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
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EXPOSITION
Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of
Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate
its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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2 Kings 1:10; Hosea 6:5; Jeremiah 1:9; Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 28:15;
Revelation 11:5; Revelation 11:6; Zechariah 1:6...
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It — The Chaldean army, shall consume and eat them up like fire....