Jeremiah 8
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Chapter 8
Chapter Overview:
Verses:
The calamity of the Jews, both dead and alive, ver. 1 - 3.
Their brutish impenitency, ver. 4 - 7.
Their vain boast of wisdom: their covetousness, security, impudence, ver. 8 - 12.
Their grievous judgments, ver. 13 - 17.
Bewailed by the prophet, ver. 18 - 22.
| 8:1 | The bones - This denotes the utter desolation of the city, not only rasing the walls, but turning up the very sepulchres which were accounted sacred, and not to be violated. |
| 8:4 | Not arise - Will they never think of rising again?Not return - Will he wander for ever? |
| 8:5 | Deceit - Their false prophets, encouraging themselves in their wickedness, and pleasing themselves, that their miseries should not come upon them. |
| 8:6 | I - God. |
| 8:7 | Appointed time - The seasons of her going and coming.The judgment - God's vengeance, hovering over Jerusalem, and Judea. |
| 8:8 | How - These things considered where is your wisdom? He speaks to the whole body of the people. The Lord - This may have a more special eye to the priests. In vain - For any use they made of it; neither need it ever have been copied out by the scribe. A scribe was a teacher, one well versed in the scripture, or esteemed to be so. |
| 8:13 | Pass away - Shall be taken away by their enemies. |
| 8:14 | Why - The people at length seem to bethink themselves, and thus to bespeak each other. Silent - Keep close within our walls. |
| 8:16 | The snorting - The fury of the Chaldeans march is described by the snorting of their horses, which is a noise they make through their nostrils. Heard - Even to Jerusalem. Have devoured - It is spoken in a prophetical style, who use to express the certainty of what shall be, as if it actually were already. |
| 8:17 | Shall bite - There will be no appeasing their fury by any method. |
| 8:18 | Sorrow - The prophet now seems to speak, how greatly the calamity of this people affected him. |
| 8:19 | Why - As if God should seem to reply; let them not think it strange, seeing they have turned their backs upon me, and trusted to idols. |
| 8:21 | Am I hurt - The prophet here shews how deeply he is affected with the peoples misery. Black - I am as those that are clad in deep mourning. |