Jeremiah 9:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. ”

Jeremiah 9:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jeremiah 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sor...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thy habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; (g) through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. (g) They would rather have forsaken God than left their wicked trade.
Jeremiah 9:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Faithlessness and its Retribution: the Dirge of Death. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in a...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet here introduces God as the speaker, that the Jews might know that they had not to do with mortal man. For they might, according to their usual perverseness, have raised this objecti...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit— Houbigant follows the LXX, and renders the verse, They add usury to usury, and deceit to deceit, they refuse, &c. The experimental knowledge of God...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Thine habitation - God addresses Jeremiah, who dwelt in the midst of deceitful men. They r...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom.
Jeremiah 9:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thine habitation... — The words may be an individualised, and therefore more emphatic, reproduction of the general warning of Jeremiah 9:4 . It is, however, better to take them as spoken by Jehova...
Jeremiah 9:6 - 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 9:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

National Perversity Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet coul...
Jeremiah 9:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature o...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How blessed is it to behold faithful ministers, who enter into a deep concern for their people. What a beautiful portrait is here undesignedly drawn of Jeremiah. How endeared is that servant of the L...
Jeremiah 9:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit ,.... In the midst of a people of deceit, as Kimchi and Ben Molech. These are the words of the Lord to the prophet, showing what a people he dwelt among, a...
Jeremiah 9:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Ver. 6. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit, ] i.e., Of deceitful persons, who have h...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour Or, of his friend , as רעהו rather signifies; of him who pretends friendship to him, or whom he has befriended. And trust ye not in a brother Against whom...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. B. C. 606. 1 Oh that my head were waters...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This God speaks to the prophet, either to inform him that there is no hope of this people's reformation, Jeremiah 8:5 ; therefore he expresseth a deceitful people by the abstract, deceit, i.e. n...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. Geographical References. Jeremiah 9:26 . “ Egypt .” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it m...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:1 . Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans woul...
Jeremiah 9:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:2 . Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men. In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of...
Jeremiah 9:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit. Strong indictment of Christian countries Who has not felt as Jeremiah? “This is a Christian country.” Why? Because the majority are as bent on self-p...
Jeremiah 9:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1-24 . Oh that my head were waters , etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going...
Jeremiah 9:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Deceit of the People
Jeremiah 9:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:34 ; Hosea 4:6 ; Jeremiah 11:19 ; Jeremiah 13:10 ; Jeremiah 18:18 ; Jeremiah 20:10 ; Job 21:14 ; Job 21:15 ; John 3:19 ; John 3:20 ; Proverbs 1:24 ; Proverbs 1:29 ; Psal...

Jeremiah 9:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 9:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 9:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 9:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 9:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 9:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 9:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 9:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge