Jeremiah 10:21

pastors. shepherds, or rulers.

are become. This points to Jehoiakim's reign.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. (with' eth). Jehovah Himself. App-4.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 10:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jeremiah 10:...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For the shepherds (n) have become senseless, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered....
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Departure into Exile. The personified community is told to pick up its bundle ( mg.), and prepare for the inevitable exile. She bewails her hu...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

In the first place, he assigns a cause for the dreadful devastation of which he had spoken, and that was, because the shepherds were without th...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. The past...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For ( a ) it introduces a break in the sense; ( b ) there is...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The condemnation of the rulers.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The pastors. — The “shepherds,” used, as in Jeremiah 2:8 ; Jeremiah 3:15 , and elsewhere, of rulers generally, rather than of priests as such....
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 plai...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Folly of Idolatry Jeremiah 10:1-10 ; Jeremiah 19:1-15 ; Jeremiah 20:1-18 ; Jeremiah 21:1-14 ; Jeremiah 22:1-30 ; Jeremiah 23:1-40 ; Jer...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterab...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet gets back again to his old subject. The prospect of the Babylonish captivity so affected the Prophet's heart, that he could harp upon no...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the pastors are become brutish ,.... The "kings" of Judah, so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, as Jehoiakim and Zedekiah; though it need not be r...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. Ver. 2...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the pastors are become brutish The prophet pursues the foregoing metaphor, and says, that the reason why the tents are destroyed, is because th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentation of Judah; Sovereignty of Divine Providence; Prophetic Imprecations. B. C....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The pastors are become brutish; not that the prophet takes off all blame from the people, but that he layeth it chiefly upon the rulers of church a...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Notifies Judah Of His Intention To Sling Them Out Of His Land And Punish Them, And They Express Their Grief As They Look Prophetically At His H...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the chapter . Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authent...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 10:1-2 . Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 10:2 . Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover t...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1-24 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Prophet's Lamentation and Prayer
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For the pastors, the rulers and leaders of the people, are become brutish, gone down to the level of irrational beasts, and have not sought the Lo...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:25-30 ; Ezekiel 34:12 ; Ezekiel 34:2-10 ; Ezekiel 34:5 ; Ezekiel 34:6 ; Isaiah 56:10-12 ; Jeremiah 10:14 ; Jeremiah 10:8 ; Jeremi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The pastors — The rulers of church and state.

²¹ For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 10:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 10:21