Jeremiahchapter 8
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2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Chapter summary
Bones dragged from the tombs and spread before the sun and moon they served.
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Chapter summary
Bones dragged from the tombs and spread before the sun and moon they served.
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Bones dragged from the tombs and spread before the sun and moon they served. Judah holds fast deceit and refuses to return, while the stork, the turtle-dove, the swallow and the crane keep the times appointed them: 'but my people know not the ordinance of Jehovah.' The lying pen of the scribes has worked falsehood; peace, peace is proclaimed again over a mortal wound. Harvest ends without rescue: 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved' (8:20). And then the prophet's own broken cry: 'Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?'
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Prophecy · Jeremiah — Jeremiah overview
- A. 1–7 Bones Spread Before the Sun; the Stork Knows Her Season
- B. 8–13 The Lying Pen of the Scribes; No Grapes on the Vine
- C. 14–22 Is There No Balm in Gilead?
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Jeremiah 64 verses
- Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 6:14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 6:24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Jeremiah 93 verses
- Jeremiah 9:6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jeremiah 9:22Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
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Jeremiah 232 verses
- Jeremiah 23:3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
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Jeremiah 52 verses
- Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Jeremiah 5:4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
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Jeremiah 142 verses
- Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
- Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
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Job 51 verse
- Job 5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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Ezekiel 61 verse
- Ezekiel 6:5And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
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2 Kings 231 verse
- 2 Kings 23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.