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    Jeremiah 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. I. The sins they are charged with are very great:—Injustice (Jeremiah 5:1), hypocrisy in religion (Jeremiah 5:2), incorrigibleness (Jeremiah 5:3), the corruption and debauchery of both poor and rich (Jeremiah 5:4, 5:5), idolatry and adultery (Jeremiah 5:7, 5:8), treacherous departures from God (Jeremiah 5:11), and impudent defiance of him (Jeremiah 5:12, 5:13), and, that which is at the bottom of all this, want of the fear of God, notwithstanding the frequent calls given them to fear him, Jeremiah 5:20-5:24. In the close of the chapter they are charged with violence and oppression (Jeremiah 5:26-5:28), and a combination of those to debauch the nation who should have been active to reform it, Jeremiah 5:30, 5:31. II. The judgments they are threatened with are very terrible. In general, they shall be reckoned with, Jeremiah 5:9, 5:29. A foreign enemy shall be brought in upon them (Jeremiah 5:15-5:17), shall set guards upon them (Jeremiah 5:6), shall destroy their fortification (Jeremiah 5:10), shall carry them away into captivity (Jeremiah 5:19), and keep all good things from them, Jeremiah 5:25. Herein the words of God’s prophets shall be fulfilled, Jeremiah 5:14. But, III. Here is an intimation twice given that God would in the midst of wrath remember mercy, and not utterly destroy them, Jeremiah 5:10, 5:18. 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.MHBCC 751.1

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