Jeremiah 8:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. ”

Jeremiah 8:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When men act as in Jeremiah 8:4 , why is God’s own people alone an exception? Slidden back ... backsliding - The same words as “turn” and “return” in Jeremiah 8:4 . They should be rendered, “...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judah's Unnatural Conduct and its Punishment. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong cours...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Whoever will impartially consider the discourse of the Prophet must see that this is the real meaning; for, in the second of these verses, he says, Why is this people of Jerusalem, etc. ; he...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1041 EXPOSTULATION WITH THE IMPENITENT Jeremiah 8:4-8 . Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? Shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 8:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
Jeremiah 8:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Slidden back... backsliding. — The English fails to give the full emphasis of the re-iteration of the same word as in the previous verse. Why doth this people of Jerusalem turn away with a perpetu...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

False Promises of Peace Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the peop...
Jeremiah 8:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Was there ever a more beautiful figure chosen to depicture the extreme folly of the human understanding, than in the contrast here drawn between the inconsiderateness of man, and the thoughtfulness o...
Jeremiah 8:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding ?.... These people fill into sin, and rise not again by repentance; they turn out of the good ways of God and religion, a...
Jeremiah 8:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. Ver. 5. Why then is this people of Jerusalem? &c. ] Why else but b...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Moreover, thou shalt say , &c. The prophet is here directed to set before the Jews the unreasonableness and folly of their impenitence, which was the thing that brought this ruin upon them. And...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Full of Impenitent Sinners; Hardened Wickedness of Judah. B. C. 606. 4 Moreover thou s...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By a perpetual backsliding: either a universal backsliding; or rather, obstinately resolved to hold on, though they see they are out of the way; not out of levity or inconsiderateness. The Hebrew w...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Expresses Amazement At The Unwillingness of His People To Return To Him, And Their Complete Disregard For His Requirements, And Warns Them That As A Consequence They Will Lose Everything ( Jere...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4 , which continues to chap....
Jeremiah 8:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:1-2 . At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and t...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:1 . At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones (as in the Chaldaic) of the false prophets. They shall spread them...
Jeremiah 8:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding. A great evil and an urgent question I. A great evil. “Backsliding.” 1. It is an evil in its nature; it is a grea...
Jeremiah 8:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 8:1-24 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. Jeremiah 8:1 They shall bring out the bones . Not only shall many of the dead...
Jeremiah 8:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Jews Persist in Wickedness
Jeremiah 8:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ; Hebrews 12:25 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Hosea 4:16 ; Isaiah 1:20 ; Isaiah 30:10 ; Isaiah 44:20 ; Jeremiah 2:32 ; Jeremiah 3:11-14 ; Jeremiah 5:3 ; Jer...
Jeremiah 8:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deceit — Their false prophets, encouraging themselves in their wickedness, and pleasing themselves, that their miseries should not come upon them.

Jeremiah 8:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Jeremiah 8:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 8:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 8:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 8:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 8:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 8:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 8:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 8:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 8:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 8:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes