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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 8:6 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 8:6 |
Strong Concordance |
I hearkened [07181] and heard [08085], but they spake not aright [01696]: no man [0376] repented [05162] him of [05921] his wickedness [07451], saying [0559], What have I done [06213]? every one turned [07725] to his course [04794], as the horse [05483] rusheth [07857] into the battle [04421]. |
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King James |
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
spake not aright--that is, not so as penitently to confess that they acted wrong. Compare what follows.
every one . . . his course--The Keri reads "course," but the Chetib, "courses." "They persevere in the courses whatever they have once entered on." Their wicked ways were diversified.
horse rusheth--literally, "pours himself forth," as water that has burst its embankment. The mad rapidity of the war horse is the point of comparison (Job 39:19-25). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I hearkened and heard - God, before passing sentence, carefully listens to the words of the people. Compare Gen 11:5, where the divine judgment is preceded by the Almighty going down to see the tower.
Not aright - Or, "not-right;" which in the Hebrew idiom means that which is utterly wrong.
No man repented - The original phrase is very striking: No "man had pity upon his own wickedness." If men understood the true nature of sin, the sinner would repent out of very pity upon himself.
As the horse rusheth - literally, "overfloweth." It is a double metaphor; first, the persistence of the people in sin is compared to the fury which at the sound of the trumpet seizes upon the war-horse; and then its rush into the battle is likened to the overflowing of a torrent, which nothing can stop in its destructive course. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
repented
(See Scofield) - (Zac 8:14). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
I - God. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
As the horse rusheth into the battle - This strongly marks the unthinking, careless desperation of their conduct. |
19 Hast thou given [05414] the horse [05483] strength [01369]? hast thou clothed [03847] his neck [06677] with thunder [07483]?
20 Canst thou make him afraid [07493] as a grasshopper [0697]? the glory [01935] of his nostrils [05170] is terrible [0367].
21 He paweth [02658] in the valley [06010], and rejoiceth [07797] in his strength [03581]: he goeth on [03318] to meet [07125] the armed men [05402].
22 He mocketh [07832] at fear [06343], and is not affrighted [02865]; neither turneth he back [07725] from [06440] the sword [02719].
23 The quiver [0827] rattleth [07439] against him, the glittering [03851] spear [02595] and the shield [03591].
24 He swalloweth [01572] the ground [0776] with fierceness [07494] and rage [07267]: neither believeth [0539] he that it is the sound [06963] of the trumpet [07782].
25 He saith [0559] among [01767] the trumpets [07782], Ha [01889], ha [01889]; and he smelleth [07306] the battle [04421] afar off [07350], the thunder [07482] of the captains [08269], and the shouting [08643].
5 And the LORD [03068] came down [03381] to see [07200] the city [05892] and the tower [04026], which the children [01121] of men [0120] builded [01129].
14 For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; As I thought [02161] to punish [07489] you, when your fathers [01] provoked me to wrath [07107], saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], and I repented [05162] not: