Hosea 6:10; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:12; Jeremiah 23:14
Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22 , and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24 , They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general im...
Let Evil-doers Fear Yahweh. The folly of not fearing Yahweh is rebuked by a reminder of the power of Him who has set an impassable limit even to th...
A wonderful . An astounding.
The Prophet, being not satisfied with the reproof which we have observed, speaks still more strongly against the wickedness of the people. He t...
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; A wonderful and horrible thing is committed on the land - Dahler translates: "Strange crimes...
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; A ... horrible thing - ( Jeremiah 23:14 ; Hosea 6:10 ).
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness.
Wonderful. — Better, terrible. Is committed. — Better, has come to pass.
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...
Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of...
Pause Reader over this horrible thing, as it was found in the days of Jeremiah: and then ask, if the annals of the Church's history, hath ever heard...
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. What may justly raise admiration in some, and horror in others, or both in all: it is so a...
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; Ver. 30. A wonderful and horrible thing. ] Res stupenda et horrenda; an abhorred filth...
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed So stupendous a crime, that it is beyond the apprehension of man to conceive, much more to express, its...
Expostulation with Israel. B. C. 608. ...
So prodigious or stupendous a crime, that it is beyond the thought or apprehension of man to conceive, much more to express; and so abominable, that...
YHWH Presents The Reasons Why The Invasion Is Necessary ( Jeremiah 5:1-31 ). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people i...
YHWH Asks His People Why In View Of His Clearly Revealed Power They Do Not Fear Him, And Concludes That It Is Because They Are Revolutionaries And R...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the chapter . The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi a...
Jeremiah 5:10-12 . Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the ho...
Jeremiah 5:2 . Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely. These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments....
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great and waxen rich. Wicked professors the bane of the...
EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precip...
Blindness of Heart, Ingratitude, Deceit, and Violence
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land, something fearful and horrible has happened, 18:13; 23:14; Hosea 6:10 .
The land — Heb. This land: aggravating the greatness of the wonder, that such a thing should be in such a land.
30 A wonderfuld and horrible thing is committed in the land;