Jeremiah 16:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. ”

• Jeremiah 16:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This chastisement arises not from caprice, but is decreed upon full knowledge and examination of their doings.

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - 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 deat...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet now shews that the grievous calamity of which he had spoken would be a just reward for the wickedness of the people; for we know that the prophets were endued with the Spirit of God...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. Mine eyes are upon all their ways - ( Jeremiah 32:19 ; Proverbs 5:21 ; Pr...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot.

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Mine eyes are upon all their ways. — The context shows that here also the thought is presented on its severer side. The sins of Israel have not escaped the all-seeing eye of Jehovah.

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say,...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Are not those fishers in allusion to what Christ said of his Apostles, Matthew 4:19-20 . And is not the recompense the Lord is here said to make to their sin, that wound of the spirit, which the Hol...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For mine eyes are upon all their ways ,.... Not only which they may take to hide themselves from their enemies, and where they should be directed to find them; but their evil ways in which they walk...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. Ver. 17. For mine eyes are upon all their ways. ] And though they hide me from...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, I will send , &c. This may be better rendered, But now I will send , &c. Because here the prophet returns to denounce threatenings; many fishers, and they shall fish them “It is c...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Judgment and Mercy; Restoration of the Jews; Deliverance from Babylon. B. C.  605.       14 Therefo...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  God is of purer eyes than that he can behold iniquity in any so as to approve it, and therefore though he be long patient, yet he will at last punish evil-doers; for his eyes behold them, their sins...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  What Jeremiah Is To Answer Once He Has Given His Explanation As To Why He Is Abstaining From Marriage And Family Life, From All Forms Of Mourning, And From All Celebratory Feasts ( Jeremiah 16:10-18...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the cap...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 16:2 . Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place. The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1-24 . The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1-24 , provided th...

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Reasons for the Captivity

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• Jeremiah 16:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 4:5 ; 2 Chronicles 16:9 ; Ezekiel 8:12 ; Ezekiel 9:9 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Isaiah 29:15 ; Jeremiah 23:24 ; Jeremiah 32:19 ; Job 34:21 ; Job 34:22 ; Luke 12:1 ; Luke 12:2 ; Prove...

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