Jeremiah 9:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? ”

Jeremiah 9:7 - 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 9:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will (h) melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? (h) With the fire of affliction.
Jeremiah 9:7 - 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 9:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the LORD of hosts. See note on Jeremiah 6:6 and 1 Samuel 1:3 . how shall . how [else] shall, &c. for the daughter: or, because of [the wickedness of] the daughter, &c.
Jeremiah 9:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah, speaking in God’s name, concludes that the chastisement, of which he had spoken, was necessary; And what I have already said appears more clearly from this verse, — that he brings to...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Behold, I win melt them - I will put them in the furnace of afflictio...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, I will melt them— The prophet uses here the same metaphor as in chap. Jeremiah 6:28 , &c. where see the note. Houbigant renders the last clause; So will I do, for the perversity of th...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? I will melt them and try them - by sending calamities on them...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom.
Jeremiah 9:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I will melt them, and try them. — The prophet, speaking in the name of Jehovah, falls back upon the imagery of Jeremiah 6:28-30 ; Isaiah 48:10 . The evil has come to such a pass that nothing is l...
Jeremiah 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I read this verse alone, in order that we may not lose the beauty and the blessedness of it. What a delightful representation is here made of the Lord's pity for his people? Doth it not seem as if th...
Jeremiah 9:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts ,.... Because of this deceit and hypocrisy, and lying: behold, I will melt them, and try them : as the refiner does his gold and silver, by putting them into...
Jeremiah 9:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Ver. 7. Behold, I will melt them and try them. ] I will cast them...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, I will melt them and try them I will cast them into the furnace of affliction, that I may purify them from their dross. See note on Jeremiah 6:29-30 , and on Isaiah 1:25 . For how shall...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. B. C. 606. 1 Oh that my head were waters...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will melt them, and try them; the same metaphor used Jeremiah 6:29 ; try them by melting them, i.e. either I will try what lesser afflictions will do before I do utterly destroy them; or rathe...
Jeremiah 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them. God’s people melted and tried Observe, here, that God represents Himself as greatly concerned to know what to do...
Jeremiah 9:7 - 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 9:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Deceit of the People
Jeremiah 9:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 1:7 ; 1 Peter 4:12 ; 2 Chronicles 36:15 ; Ezekiel 22:18-22 ; Ezekiel 26:11 ; Ezekiel 26:12 ; Hosea 11:8 ; Hosea 11:9 ; Hosea 6:4 ; Hosea 6:5 ; Isaiah 1:25 ; Isaiah 48:10 ; Jeremi...
Jeremiah 9:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Try them — By melting them, I will bring upon them, the fire of the Chaldean war, that shall purge away those deceits in which they trust, that the remnant may be purified. For how — I have tried a...

Jeremiah 9:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 9:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 9:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 9:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 9:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 9:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 9:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 9:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 9:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 9:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes