Jeremiah 5:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. ”

Jeremiah 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22 , and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24 , They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-2...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Let Evil-doers Fear Yahweh. The folly of not fearing Yahweh is rebuked by a reminder of the power of Him who has set an impassable limit even to the sea ( cf. the rebuke of Job's presumption by th...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the previous verse is completed; for what is said here is connected with the question which we have noticed. But God now proves more clearly why he adduced what he said of the sea. The cop...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1039 GOD’S BOUNTIES, AND OUR INGRATITUDE Jeremiah 5:23-24 . This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart. They are revolted and gone: neither say they in. their heart, Let us n...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. They are revolted and gone - They have abandoned me, and are gone farther and farther into transgression. They are...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart - ( Jeremiah 6:28 ).
Jeremiah 5:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness.
Jeremiah 5:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But this people... — The contrast seems to lie in the fact that the elements are subject to God’s will, but that man’s rebellious will, with its fatal gift of freedom, has the power to resist it. T...
Jeremiah 5:23 - 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 5:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 fou...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! observe how graciously the Lord goeth on to expostulate, and to reason with his people. Both Israel and Judah shall hear. And by what strong appeals from his omnipotency, he calls them to con...
Jeremiah 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ver. 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart ,.... They are not so obedient as the sea and its waves; nor so firm and stable as the sand that is set for the bound of it. This is a...
Jeremiah 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Ver. 23. But this people have a revolting and rebellious heart. ] a Cor recedens et amaricans; gone they a...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Fear ye not me? saith the Lord He ascribes their stupidity and foolishness to their want of the fear of God. As if he had said, If you would but call to mind God's almighty power, and your own weak...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with Israel. B. C. 608. 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publi...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They are not only revolted from me, and gone back, but they continue obstinate, and will not return, Psalms 78:8 , as the next clause intimates, where God shows their obstinacy by the effect of it...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Presents The Reasons Why The Invasion Is Necessary ( Jeremiah 5:1-31 ). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both s...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 time...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 5:21-24 Notice the results of self-will as shown in the text. I. Self-will in relation to the Divine government destroys the natural capacities and faculties of man. II. Self-will in re...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 5:10-12 . 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 ve...
Jeremiah 5:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 p...
Jeremiah 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

O foolish people, and without understanding. God’s judgment of self-will The text is part of a message which was to be declared in the house of Jacob, and published in Israel. It shows that thr...
Jeremiah 5:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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-ma...
Jeremiah 5:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Blindness of Heart, Ingratitude, Deceit, and Violence
Jeremiah 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 3:12 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Hosea 4:8 ; Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 31:6 ; Jeremiah 17:9 ; Jeremiah 5:5 ; Jeremiah 6:28 ; Psalms 95:10
Jeremiah 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Gone — From me.

Jeremiah 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Jeremiah 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 5:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 5:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 5:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 5:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 5:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 5:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 5:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes