Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Verse Jeremiah 5:15. _I WILL BRING A NATION_] The _Scythians_, says_Dahler_; the _Babylonians_, whose antiquity was great, that empirebeing founded by Nimrod._WHOSE LANGUAGE THOU KNOWEST NOT_] Th...
Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Israel is not put here for the ten tribes, but for the whole house ofJacob, of which Judah was now the representative.MIGHTY - “permanent, enduring.” The word is the usual epithet ofthe rocks Numbe...
Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein
CHAPTER 5_ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10)3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19)4. The horrible thing ...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible
THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyardof Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejectingHis warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
I WILL BRING. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49). App-92.A NATION: i.e. the Chaldeans, but not yet named as such.ANCIENT. Compare Genesis 10:10.UNDERSTANDEST. hearest. Put by Figure of s...
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
See summary at beginning of section....
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Although the description suits the Babylonians (cp. Isaiah 5:26 of theAssyrians; also Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 33:19), we need not suppose thatit is altered in phraseology from its original application...
College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18)TRANSLATION(10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end;Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For thehouse...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saiththe LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nationwhose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what th...
Darby's translation notes (1890)
5:15 understandest (i-33) Lit. 'hearest.'...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
A NATION] the Assyrian....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
O HOUSE OF ISRAEL. — Apparently, as there is no contrast with Judah,in its wider sense, as including the whole body of the twelve tribes.A MIGHTY NATION. — The strict force of the adjective is that...
ETCBC data on Hebrew bible
הִנְנִ֣י מֵבִיא֩ עֲלֵיכֶ֨ם גֹּ֧וי מִמֶּרְחָ֛ק...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1CHAPTER IVTHE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GODJeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30IF we would under
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet nowcarefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the uttercorruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you (o) from far, O house of Israel,saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, anation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest...
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
_Ancient. Nemrod founded the empire of Ninive and of Babylon, Genesisx. 10. Nabopolassar had succeeded to the ancient Assyrian and Chaldeansovereigns. Under his son, Nabuchodonosor, the dominions we...
Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, Iwill sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, bededicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and glo...
John Calvin's Bible Commentary
The Prophet shews here how the people would become like straw or drywood; for God would bring a sure calamity which they did not fear. Butthe context is to be here observed: the Prophet had said, th...
John Darby's Synopsis
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it atthat time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must beunto th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
LO, I WILL BRING A NATION UPON YOU FROM FAR,.... From Babylon, as inJeremiah 4:16:O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD; though the house of Israel isgenerally taken for the ten tribes, especially whe...
John Trapp Complete Commentary
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saiththe LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nationwhose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
_Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts_ The prophet now, in thename of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels,ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculat...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saiththe Lord, this being the specific manner in which His punishment ofdestruction would be carried out. IT IS A MIGHTY NATION, IT IS...
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible
10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be sostrict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind.Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes
Jeremiah 5:15 bring H935 (H8688) nation H1471 afar H4801 house H1004Israel H3478 says H5002 (H8803) LORD...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
YHWH CALLS ON HIS CHAMPION, WHOSE GREAT MIGHT HE MAKES CLEAR, IN ORDERTHAT HIS FORCES MIGHT DENUDE JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR TREACHERY TOWARDSHIM (JEREMIAH 5:10).The instrument of YHWH's judgment is c...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH5:1).Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people inJerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
Spurgeon's Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not afull end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. Forthe house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt verytre...
Summarized Bible Commentary
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges againstthem and the judgments threatened.CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swearfalsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, notsentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied hisperf...
The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 5:15 The destroyer, Babylon, was indeedANCIENT and famous for literature, religion, and for its inclinationto go to war.⇐
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Thedescription here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisationleads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
The Pulpit Commentaries
EXPOSITIONIs the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition ofJerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitateits people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, andknow, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there beany that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 Corinthians 14:21; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 7:7; D
Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Israel — By these are meant Judah; for Israel were in captivitybefore: called the house of Israel, not only because they descendedfrom Jacob, but because they were the chief of that stock....
