Jeremiah 4:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. ”

Jeremiah 4:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] silly children, and they have no understanding: (s) they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. (s) Their wisdo...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet's Grief for his country finds characteristic expression: My bowels! my bowels! Let me writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart moaneth within me! (Driver). His soul hears ( mg. with LXX...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

known . acknowledged. sottish . stupid. Probably from Celtic. Breton sot, or sod = stupid. children . sons.
Jeremiah 4:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet again teaches us, that the cause of these evils arose from the people themselves, and was to be found in them, so that they could not transfer it to anybody else. Hence he says, M...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 4:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my people is foolish— Some have supposed that these words, as well as the preceding ones, are to be referred to God; but they suit the prophet much better, who speaks here, as commissioned by t...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. For my people i...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet Sets Forth the Sin of the Nation and Points Out the Inevitable Result (Reign of Josiah, and Probably Before the Reforms of that King: cp. Jeremiah 3:6 ) This section furnishes us with...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For my people is foolish. — Jehovah answers the prophet’s question. The misery comes to punish the folly and sottishness of the people. It shall last as long as they last, or till it has accomplish...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 5:1-31 ; Jeremiah 6:1-30 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 p...
Jeremiah 4:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in ext...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I hope the Reader will pause over these verses, and remark the concern of the Prophet. And when he hath done this, let him ask himself what ought to be the concern of the Lord's prophets: I mean his...
Jeremiah 4:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For my people is foolish ,.... This, as Kimchi says, is the answer of the Lord to the prophet; for not the prophet says this, but the Lord to the prophet, giving a reason why this sore destruction c...
Jeremiah 4:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Ver. 22. For...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How long shall I see the standard , &c. This dreadful war continued a great while, not in the borders, but in the bowels of the country; for the people were very obstinate, and would not submit...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Punishment Predicted. B. C. 620. 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For my people is foolish: though God show them here that the cause of all these calamities is their folly, Jeremiah 2:17,19 Psa 38:3,5 , yet he owns them for his people, Jeremiah 2:11,31,32 ....
Jeremiah 4:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judah Are Called To Repentance As Well As Israel For They Are Still In Their Land, And, If They Will Only Truly Turn To Him With Genuinely Changed Hearts, Can Still Look Forward To The Future In Hop...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Chronology of the chapter, Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History as in chap. 3. 1. Geographical References. Jeremiah 4:5 . “ Defenced cit...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:1-2 . If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The L...
Jeremiah 4:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:3 . Break up your fallow ground. Hebrews ניר nir, novale; make new land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12 . Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the...
Jeremiah 4:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

I am pained at my very heart. The prophet’s lamentations over his people’s doom I. The complaint or lamentation itself. 1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man. (1) The secrecy of...
Jeremiah 4:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 4:1 , Jeremiah 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, If thou wilt return , O Israel , saith Jehovah , wilt return unto me ; a...
Jeremiah 4:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation.
Jeremiah 4:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:20 ; 1 Corinthians 1:21 ; 1 Corinthians 14:20 ; 2 Samuel 13:3 ; 2 Samuel 16:21-23 ; Deuteronomy 32:28 ; Deuteronomy 32:6 ; Hosea 4:1 ; Hosea 4:6 ; Hosea 5:4 ; Isaiah 1:3 ;...

Jeremiah 4:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 4:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 4:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 4:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 4:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 4:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 4:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 4:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 4:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 4:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge