Deuteronomy 29:24-28; Isaiah 5:3; Jeremiah 31:10; Jeremiah 4:10; Micah 6:5; Psalms 50:4-6
God summons three witnesses to hear His sentence. (1) the Gentiles. (2) all mankind, Jews and Gentiles. (3) nature (see Jeremiah 6:19 )....
Therefore hear, ye (q) nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them. (q) God takes all the world to witness and the insensible creatures...
Jeremiah 6:16-21 . Obedience more than Sacrifice. Yahweh vainly bade the people stand at the parting of the ways (Hebrew, by the ways), and seek t...
congregation . assembly (in its civil aspect). Hebrew. 'edah, . technical Pentateuchal word. First occurrence in Exodus 12:3 ; Exodus 12:6 ; Exo...
He turns now to address the nations, which had never heard anything of true religion. But the design of the apostrophe was, to make the Jews as...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Therefore hear, ye nations— "You, Chaldeans, and all the various people who compose the army coming against Jerusalem; nay, let all the world ( Jer...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Congregation - parallel to "nations;" it therefore means the gather...
1-8. The hostile army approaches.
What is among them ] i.e. what is the punishment impending over Judah.
Therefore hear, ye nations... — The obstinate refusal with which the people met the summons of the prophet leads him once more to a solemn appeal (...
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...
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem....
In what strong terms doth the Lord set forth the folly of outward things, as the incense and the cane, when there was no inward offering of the heart...
Therefore hear, ye nations ,.... Since the Jews refused to hearken to the word of the Lord, the Gentiles are called upon to hear it, as in Acts 13:...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them. Ver. 18. Therefore hear, O ye nations. ] For this people will not hear...
Therefore hear, ye nations The very heathen are called upon to take notice of these threatenings and denunciations of God's wrath against the Jews,...
Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608....
Ver. 18, Hear, ye nations: he calls upon the nations round about to be as so many spectators of his severity against Judah, though they were his ow...
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...
YHWH Now Describes The Total Intransigence Of His People And Dismisses Their Attempts To Pacify Him By Religious Ritual And Offerings, Confirming To...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES . —1. Chronological and Historical position of this chapter the same . (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. Geographical Ref...
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]...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance....
The Impending Judgment Announced
Therefore hear, ye nations, the Gentile people everywhere, and know, O congregation, either the entire assembly of the nations which are here summo...
Nations — He calls upon the nations round about to be spectators of his severity against Judah. What — The greatness of their punishment, as the ef...
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.