Jeremiah 6:29

founder melteth. refiner refineth.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The bellows are burned - Worn out by continual blowing. The prophet has exhausted all his efforts. His heart, consumed by the heat of divine insp...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The (x) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. (x) All the pain and...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet's Task. The record of earlier prophecies ( Jeremiah 6:1-6 ) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He says, that the bellows was consumed by the fire and without any advantage. The whole sentence is metaphorical. Interpreters refer it s...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I have set thee for a tower, &c.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. The bellows are b...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-8. The hostile army approaches.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

All the prophet's fervour is without effect. Nothing of value rewards the long assay. Are burned] RV 'blow fiercely.' Plucked away ] i.e. elimina...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The bellows are burned. — Better, burn, or glow. In the interpretation of the parable the “bellows” answer to the life of the prophet as filled...
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 wh...
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....
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprob...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The bellows are burnt ,.... Which Kimchi interprets of the mouth and throat of the prophet, which, through reproving the people, were dried up, and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. Ver. 29. The bellows a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They are all grievous revolters Obstinate and refractory; walking with slanders Making it their business to detract from thee and the other proph...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The bellows are burned: the prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating herein that the prophets had spent their lung...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

In View Of Judah's Failure To Respond To His Warnings YHWH Stresses That The Invasion Is Now Imminent ( Jeremiah 6:1-30 ). Chapter 4 had predicted...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah Learns That YHWH Has Established Him As An Assayer Of His People, As Well As Their Fortress, Although All That He Will Discover Will Be Tha...
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 Ref...
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]...
The Biblical Illustrator

The bellows are burnt. The bellows burnt Apply to-- I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people were impressed. So a...
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....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Impending Judgment Announced
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The bellows are burned, in the long process which was intended to purify the people and produce some amount of gold, the lead is consumed of the fir...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 1:7 ; 1 Peter 4:12 ; Ezekiel 24:13 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Isaiah 49:4 ; Jeremiah 9:7 ; Malachi 3:2 ; Malachi 3:3 ; Proverbs 17:3 ; Zecharia...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The bellows — The prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from refining of metals, intimating, that the prophets had spent their breath to no purpose...

²⁹ The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 6:29

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

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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)

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

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 6:29