Jeremiah 8:7

Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 5:12; Jeremiah 5:4; Jeremiah 5:5; Proverbs 6:6-8; Song of Solomon 2:12

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah appeals to the obedience which migratory birds render to the law of their natures. The “stork” arrives in Palestine about March 21, and af...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my peopl...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judah's Unnatural Conduct and its Punishment. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

knoweth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for the effect of acting on the knowledge. turtle . turtle-dove.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here again Jeremiah condemns the shameful insensibility of the people, — that they had less wisdom than birds, not endued with reason and under...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1041 EXPOSTULATION WITH THE IMPENITENT Jeremiah 8:4-8 . Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my peopl...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Yea, the stork in the heaven— "These birds know by natural instinct the seasons when to return to the places of their former abode; whereas this pe...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my p...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The turtle and the crane and the swallow ] rather, 'The turtle dove and the swift and the crane': cp. Isaiah 1:3 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The stork in the heaven. — The eye of the prophet looked on nature at once with the quick observation of one who is alive to all her changes, and w...
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

False Promises of Peace Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terribl...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Was there ever a more beautiful figure chosen to depicture the extreme folly of the human understanding, than in the contrast here drawn between the...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

A LESSON FROM THE STORK ‘The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times.’ Jeremiah 8:7 We could lay down on the map the great highways...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ,.... Of going and returning; for this is a bird of passage, as Pliny d and other naturalis...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my peop...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Yea, the stork knoweth her appointed times Of going and returning; the turtle and the crane, &c., the time of their coming The proper season...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Full of Impenitent Sinners; Hardened Wickedness of Judah. B. C. 606....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In the heaven, i.e. in the air, which is often called heaven, where the birds fly, Psalms 8:8 ; compare Jeremiah 7:33 , who possibly observe...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Expresses Amazement At The Unwillingness of His People To Return To Him, And Their Complete Disregard For His Requirements, And Warns Them That...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenc...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 8:7-8 Our text makes mention of the discrimination of times by the faculty of instinct, and contrasts it favourably with man's want of di...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:1-2 . At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:1 . At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of t...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:1 . At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones (as in the Chaldaic)...
The Biblical Illustrator

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding. A great evil and an urgent question I. A great evil. “Backsliding...
The Biblical Illustrator

I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? God’s inquisition 1. That Go...
The Biblical Illustrator

But My people know not the Judgment of the Lord. A set time for judgment The judgment of God is either directive, corrective, or destructive. T...
The Biblical Illustrator

The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times. Instinct contrasted with reason in its discernment of times I. The birds of passage show i...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 8:1-24 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. Jeremiah 8:1 They shall brin...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Jews Persist in Wickedness
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, the regular migration seasons; and the turtle, that is, the turtle-dove, and the crane a...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Appointed time — The seasons of her going and coming. The judgment — God's vengeance, hovering over Jerusalem, and Judea.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 8:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit 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

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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