Jeremiah 7:28

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

²¹ Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. ²² For I did not speak with your ancestors, nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice. ²³ But I only commanded them this word, saying, ‘Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.' ²⁴ Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they became worse instead of better. ²⁵ From the day that your ancestors came out from the land of Egypt until this day I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, day after day, sending again and again. ²⁶ Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors. ²⁷ So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. ²⁸ "And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

nor: Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 6:29, Jeremiah 6:30, Isaiah 1:4, Isaiah 1:5, Zephaniah 3:2

correction: or, instruction, Jeremiah 6:8, Jeremiah 32:33, Psalms 50:17, Proverbs 1:7, Zephaniah 3:7

truth: Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 9:3-8, Isaiah 59:14, Isaiah 59:15, Hosea 4:1, Micah 7:2-5

Reciprocal: Luke 11:51 - It shall 1 Corinthians 11:32 - we are Revelation 3:19 - many

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But thou shalt say unto them,.... Having found by experience, after long speaking and calling to them, that they are a disobedient and incorrigible people:

this is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God; who, though the Lord is their God, and has chosen and avouched them to be his special people, whom he has distinguished by special favours; yet what he says by his prophets they pay no regard unto, and are no better than the Gentiles, which know not God:

nor receiveth correction; or "instruction" y; so as to be reclaimed, and made the better; neither by the word, nor by the rod; neither had any effect upon them:

truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth; neither faith nor faithfulness is in them; nothing but lying, hypocrisy, and insincerity.

y ולא לקחו מוסר "neque acceperunt disciplinam", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A nation - The “nation.” Israel holds so unique a position among all nations that for it to disobey God is marvelous.

Truth ... - Fidelity to God. Though they have the name of Yahweh often upon their lips and swear by Him Jeremiah 5:2, yet it is only profession without practice.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 7:28. Nor receiveth correction — They have profited neither by mercies nor by judgments: blessings and corrections have been equally lost upon them.