Jeremiah 6:8

My soul. I myself. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be thou instructed - Be thou chastised: learn the lesson which chastisement is intended to teach thee. Lest my soul - Lest I Myself - not “de...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Be thou instructed, O (h) Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. (h) He warns them to amend by h...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Siege of the Sinful City. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Though the Prophet had spoken as though there was no remedy for the evils of Jerusalem, he yet exhorts it to seek peace with God, and addresses...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Be thou instructed - Still there is...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lest my soul depart from thee— That is to say, "Lest my affections be utterly alienated from thee, so that I cast off all bowels of compassion towa...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Tender appeal in the midst of...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-8. The hostile army approaches.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Be thou instructed. — Better, Be thou corrected, or, chastened. Comp. Psalms 2:10 ; Leviticus 26:23 (where we have “reformed”); and Proverb...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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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

I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And be thou instructed, O Jerusalem ,.... Or "corrected" s; receive discipline or instructions by chastisements and corrections, return by repentanc...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Ver. 8. Be thou instructed. ] Aff...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem , &c. Take warning by the many threatenings and judgments I have denounced against thee; amend thy ways and doin...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. B. C. 608....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Be thou instructed, Heb. corrected : q.d. By the correction thou hast felt, and what is threatened, be persuaded to repentance before it be too la...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

His People Are To Prepare For Action Because The Invasion Is Upon Them ( Jeremiah 6:1-8 ). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Ben...
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...
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

Arise, and let us go up at noon. Christian effort That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to t...
The Biblical Illustrator

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest My soul depart from thee. The way to prevent the ruin of a sinful people I. The infinite goodness and pat...
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 Advice to Flee from Jerusalem
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, so the Lord addresses her in a tender appeal, lest My soul depart from thee, unwilling as His love is to take this...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Ezekiel 23:18 ; Hosea 9:12 ; Jeremiah 17:23 ; Jeremiah 2:15 ; Jeremiah 31:19 ; Jeremiah 32:33 ; Jeremiah 35:13-15 ; Jere...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Be thou instructed — I would yet willingly spare them if it might be. Depart — Heb. be disjointed, a most emphatical metaphor, whereby God would ex...

⁸ Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul departc from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 6:8

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

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 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 6:8