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Jeremiah 6:16-17 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 6 · verses 16–17
16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.Jeremiah 6:16-17 · King James Version
Jeremiah 6:16-17 in context
14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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.
16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Commentary
Cross references
- Isaiah 30:21
- Deuteronomy 32:7
- Jeremiah 18:15
- Matthew 11:28-29
- Jeremiah 7:23
- Colossians 2:6
- Isaiah 2:5
- John 12:35
Key words (Strong's)
- watchmentsâphâhproperly, to lean forwardH6822 →
- Hearkenqâshabto prick up the earsH7181 →
- trumpetshôwphâra cornet or curved hornH7782 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
- Standʻâmadto stand, in various relationsH5975 →
- pathsnâthîyba trackH5410 →
- soundqôwla voice or soundH6963 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line. I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the haste which the Chaldea army made to the war (Jer 6:4, Jer 6:5); now here we have the havoc made by the war.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-17