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Jeremiah 13:15-19
The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:15-19
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The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:1-27Jeremiah 13:1-27 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal language the ruin…Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:12-17Jeremiah 13:12-17 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryAs the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the sins of the people made them vessels of wrath, fitted for the judgments of God; with which they should be filled till they caused each other's destruction. The prophet e…The Bottles Filled with Wine; Punishment Predicted; A Call to Repentance. (b. c. 606.)Jeremiah 13:12-21 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleTHE BOTTLES FILLED WITH WINE; PUNISHMENT PREDICTED; A CALL TO REPENTANCE. (B. C. 606.) Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a fi…The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:15Jeremiah 13:15 · The Pulpit CommentaryBe not proud. It is difficult to see what those whom the prophet was addressing had to proud of; but it is certain that they were proud, and that thereby they were, more than by aught else, hindered from receiving the w…
commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:1-27EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal language the ruin…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:12-17As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the sins of the people made them vessels of wrath, fitted for the judgments of God; with which they should be filled till they caused each other's destruction. The prophet e…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Bottles Filled with Wine; Punishment Predicted; A Call to Repentance. (b. c. 606.)THE BOTTLES FILLED WITH WINE; PUNISHMENT PREDICTED; A CALL TO REPENTANCE. (B. C. 606.) Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a fi…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:15Be not proud. It is difficult to see what those whom the prophet was addressing had to proud of; but it is certain that they were proud, and that thereby they were, more than by aught else, hindered from receiving the w…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:16Give glory, etc. Let your tribute to your King be that of humble submission to his will. The precise application of the phrase must be derived from the context (comp. Joshua 7:19; Malachi 2:2). Upon the dark mountains;…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:16Days of grace and how they should be spent The mind of the prophet was full of the doom which he had predicted, and he was apprehensive of the spiritual results of exile and confusion with heathen nations. The people th…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:16A solemn warning. This is an appeal to the fears of the people; one of the many instances in which the prophet seeks to win them to the way of righteousness by the presage of impending woe. Utter destruction is before t…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 13:16Darkness. I. SIN PLUNGES THE SOUL INTO DARKNESS. "Light is sown for the righteous" (Psalms 97:11). The darkness of evil thoughts and an evil will throws its shadow out on the world, and ultimately brings gloom over the…Joseph S. Exell and contributors