Jeremiah 44:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt-in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis-and in the land of Pathros: ²"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation ³because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew. ⁴Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.' ⁵But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods. ⁶Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become the desolate ruin they are today. ⁷So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves? You are cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant, ⁸provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to reside. As a result, you will be cut off and become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth. ⁹Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁰To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.

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are not: Jeremiah 8:12, Exodus 9:17, Exodus 10:3, 1 Kings 21:29, 2 Chronicles 12:6-12, 2 Chronicles 32:26, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 34:27, Daniel 5:20-22, James 4:6-10, 1 Peter 5:6

humbled: Heb. contrite, 2 Kings 22:19, Psalms 34:18, Psalms 51:17, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 66:2, Ezekiel 9:4

neither: Jeremiah 10:7, Jeremiah 36:24, Exodus 9:30, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 14:16, Proverbs 16:6, Proverbs 28:14, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:13, Malachi 4:2, Matthew 27:54, Luke 23:40, Romans 11:20, Revelation 15:4

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:29 - yet they Jeremiah 26:4 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 44:17
But Joseph replied, "Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace."

Genesis 44:24
Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.

Genesis 44:25
Then our father said, 'Go back and buy us some food.'

Genesis 44:33
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

Exodus 22:3
But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They are not humbled [even] unto this day,.... Not contrite under a sense of their sins, nor truly penitent for them; not humbled before God nor man, so as to acknowledge them, mourn over them, and forsake them. The Targum is,

"they cease not unto this day;''

that is, from committing the same things; which shows they had no true humiliation and contrition for them. This is to be understood, not of the Jews in Babylon only, but chiefly of those in Egypt; there being a change of person from you to they; the Lord not vouchsafing to speak to them who were so obdurate and impenitent, but of them, and to some other, as the prophet, concerning them:

neither have they feared; the Lord; neither his goodness nor his judgments; or served and worshipped him with reverence and godly fear, as became them:

nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you, and before your fathers; a full proof this that they neither had true repentance for their sins, nor the fear of God in their hearts; for, had they, these would have led them to obedience to the divine will.