"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD."
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They are brought to shame because
They have “committed abomination:”
Shame nevertheless they feel not;
To blush nevertheless they know not;
“Therefore they shall fall among” the falling;
“At the...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)
Jeremiah 6:1. The children of B...
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THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of
Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a
grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his
wo...
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COULD THEY. knew they how to....
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See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again.
Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited
the Northern tribes, but many times....
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3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15)
TRANSLATION
(9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine
the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were
not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall
fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they...
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6:15 that (d-4) Or 'They have come to shame because.' so in ch. 8.12....
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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WERE THEY ASHAMED...? — The Hebrew gives an assertion, not a
question — _They are brought to shame_ (as in Jeremiah 2:26),
_because they have committed abominations._ And yet, the prophet adds,
“they...
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הֹבִ֕ישׁוּ כִּ֥י תֹועֵבָ֖ה עָשׂ֑וּ
גַּם ־בֹּ֣ושׁ לֹֽא ־יֵבֹ֗ושׁוּ גַּם
־הַכְלִים֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ לָכֵ֞ן
יִפְּל֧וּ
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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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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of
the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on
them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
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_FAILURES_
‘They shall fall among them that fall.’
Jeremiah 6:15
How many men start in London with the fairest possible promise, but
who ultimately, alas, become occasional inmates of the casual wa...
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Jeremiah turns now his discourse to the whole people. In the last
verse he reproved only the priests and the prophets; he now speaks
more generally, and says, that they had put off all shame.
“Behold,...
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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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WERE THEY ASHAMED WHEN THEY HAD COMMITTED ABOMINATION?.... This seems
chiefly, and in the first place, to respect the false prophets and
wicked priests; who when they committed idolatry, or any other...
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_Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were
not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall
fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them the...
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_For, from the least of them_, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high
and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; _every one
is given to covetousness_ Greedy of filthy lucre; and this m...
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THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
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9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or
rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and
wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin by...
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WERE THEY, viz. the false prophets, ashamed? Some read it actively, as
sometimes it is taken, Did they put the people to shame? but that is
not so proper here; it rather notes how bold and confident,...
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Jeremiah 6:15 ashamed H3001 (H8689) committed H6213 (H8804)
abomination H8441 No H1571 all H954 (H8800) ashamed H954 (H8799) Nor
H1571 know H3045 (H8804) blush H3637 (H8687) fall H5307 (H8799) fall
H5...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the rea...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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_They were not at all ashamed._
SHAMELESSNESS IN SIN, THE CERTAIN FORERUNNER OF DESTRUCTION
He who has thus sinned himself past feeling, may be justly supposed to
have sinned himself past grace.
1....
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THE COLOR OF VIRTUE
I am ashamed and blush. Ezra 9:6.
Neither could they blush. Jeremiah 6:15.
Did you ever hear the story of how the Virginian creeper got its
blush? The story is only a legend, b...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:13 Greed always leads to seeking UNJUST
GAIN. PROPHET... PRIEST. These religious leaders are as greedy as the
people. Thus, they promise PEACE rather than the punishment of...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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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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Exodus 32:34; Ezekiel 14:10; Ezekiel 14:9; Ezekiel 16:24; Ezekiel
16:25; Ezekiel 2:4; Ezekiel 24:7; Ezekiel 7:6; Hosea 9:7; Isaiah 10:4;...
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Committed — Both by encouraging the people, and joining with them in
their idolatries....