23 And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.
All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously -- brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.
`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --
Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.
Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy.
Crooked `is' the heart above all things, And it `is' incurable -- who doth know it?
The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.
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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,