Jeremiah 6:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul departc from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. ”

Jeremiah 6:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be thou instructed - Be thou chastised: learn the lesson which chastisement is intended to teach thee. Lest my soul - Lest I Myself - not “depart from thee,” God does not willingly leave His...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Be thou instructed, O (h) Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. (h) He warns them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by repentance.
Jeremiah 6:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Siege of the Sinful City. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

My soul . I myself. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
Jeremiah 6:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Though the Prophet had spoken as though there was no remedy for the evils of Jerusalem, he yet exhorts it to seek peace with God, and addresses men past remedy in his name. It is then the same...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Be thou instructed - Still there is respite: if they would even now return unto the Lo...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lest my soul depart from thee— That is to say, "Lest my affections be utterly alienated from thee, so that I cast off all bowels of compassion towards thee, and give thee up to ruin and desolation....
Jeremiah 6:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Tender appeal in the midst of threats. Lest my soul depart - Hebrew, 'be to...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-8. The hostile army approaches.
Jeremiah 6:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Be thou instructed. — Better, Be thou corrected, or, chastened. Comp. Psalms 2:10 ; Leviticus 26:23 (where we have “reformed”); and Proverbs 29:19 . Lest my soul. — As in Jeremiah 4:19...
Jeremiah 6:8 - 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 6:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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,...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
Jeremiah 6:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And be thou instructed, O Jerusalem ,.... Or "corrected" s; receive discipline or instructions by chastisements and corrections, return by repentance, that the evils threatened may not come: this sh...
Jeremiah 6:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Ver. 8. Be thou instructed. ] Affliction is a schoolmaster, a or rather an usher...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem , &c. Take warning by the many threatenings and judgments I have denounced against thee; amend thy ways and doings, lest, if thou persist in thy wickedness, I be...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. B. C. 608. 1 O ye children of B...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Be thou instructed, Heb. corrected : q.d. By the correction thou hast felt, and what is threatened, be persuaded to repentance before it be too late, Proverbs 29:15 . God doth here in the mids...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

His People Are To Prepare For Action Because The Invasion Is Upon Them ( Jeremiah 6:1-8 ). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own tribe), who were to the north of Je...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
Jeremiah 6:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Arise, and let us go up at noon. Christian effort That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our pilgrimage...
Jeremiah 6:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. Jeremiah 6:1-24 Arrival of a hostile army fro...
Jeremiah 6:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Advice to Flee from Jerusalem
Jeremiah 6:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Ezekiel 23:18 ; Hosea 9:12 ; Jeremiah 17:23 ; Jeremiah 2:15 ; Jeremiah 31:19 ; Jeremiah 32:33 ; Jeremiah 35:13-15 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; Jeremiah 7:20 ; Jeremiah 7:34 ; Jer...
Jeremiah 6:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Be thou instructed — I would yet willingly spare them if it might be. Depart — Heb. be disjointed, a most emphatical metaphor, whereby God would express how great grief it is to him to withdraw him...

Jeremiah 6:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 6:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 6:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 6:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 6:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 6:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 6:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 6:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 6:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 6:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 6:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 6:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 6:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 6:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes