23 But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
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Commentary on Jeremiah 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
Reproof for sin and threatenings of judgment are intermixed in this chapter, and are set the one over against the other: judgments are threatened, that the reproofs of sin might be the more effectual to bring them to repentance; sin is discovered, that God might be justified in the judgments threatened.
This was the scope and purport of Jeremiah's preaching in the latter end of Josiah's reign and the beginning of Jehoiakim's; but the success of it did not answer expectation.
Jer 5:1-9
Here is,
Jer 5:10-19
We may observe in these verses, as before,
Jer 5:20-24
The prophet, having reproved them for sin and threatened the judgments of God against them, is here sent to them again upon another errand, which he must publish in Judah; the purport of it is to persuade them to fear God, which would be an effectual principle of their reformation, as the want of that fear had been at the bottom of their apostasy.
Jer 5:25-31
Here,