Jeremiah 4:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. ”

Jeremiah 4:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is not turned ... - As long as their sins are unrepented of, so long must their punishment continue.
Jeremiah 4:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Enemy's Approach. Warning is given by the horn, and guidance, to the refugees fleeing to Jerusalem, by the standard; they are bidden to bring (their families) into safety (not flee for safety)....
Jeremiah 4:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet seems not yet to exhort his own nation to repent: a more gracious doctrine will presently follow; but here he only reminds them that a most grievous mourning was nigh at hand; for h...
Jeremiah 4:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. Lament and howl - הילילו heililu. The aboriginal Irish had a funeral song called the Ca...
Jeremiah 4:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. Nothing is left to the Jews but to bewail their desperate condition. Anger of...
Jeremiah 4:8 - 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 4:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Gird you with sackcloth. — From the earliest times the outward sign of mourning, and therefore of repentance ( Joel 1:8 ; Isaiah 22:12 ).
Jeremiah 4:8 - 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 4:8 - 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 4:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet here opens his commission to the men of Judah and Jerusalem; and in the prospect of the Babylonish captivity, now hastening, admonisheth them to seek the Lord. The Prophet, like a faithfu...
Jeremiah 4:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl ,.... That is, because of this destruction threatened, which was so near at hand, and so sure and certain: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not...
Jeremiah 4:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. Ver. 8. For this, gird you with sackcloth. ] Repent, if at least it be not too late,...
Jeremiah 4:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The lion is come up from his thicket Nebuchadnezzar, so called from his fierceness and strength, shall come up from Babylon, where his chief seat is, as lions are principally among the thickets of...
Jeremiah 4:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Punishment Predicted. B. C. 620. 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and...
Jeremiah 4:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Gird you with sackcloth; the usual habit of mourners, especially in those days, Isaiah 22:12 Jeremiah 6:26 : it is a calling upon them to repent. Lament and howl: probably these expressions...
Jeremiah 4:8 - 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 4:8 - 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 4:8 - 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 4:8 - 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 4:8 - 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 4:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of The Judgment under three Emblems
Jeremiah 4:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:10 ; Ezekiel 21:12 ; Ezekiel 30:2 ; Isaiah 10:4 ; Isaiah 13:6 ; Isaiah 15:2 ; Isaiah 15:3 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Isaiah 32:11 ; Isaiah 5:25 ; Isaiah 9:12 ; Isaiah 9:17 ; Isaiah 9:21 ;...

Jeremiah 4:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 4:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 4:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 4:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 4:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 4:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 4:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 4:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge