Jeremia 8:6

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Jag har givit akt och hört huru de tala vad orätt är; ingen enda finnes, som ångrar sin ondska, ingen säger: »Vad har jag gjort!» Alla löpa de bort, lika hästar som rusa åstad i striden.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hearkened: Job 33:27, Job 33:28, Psalms 14:2, Isaiah 30:18, Malachi 3:16, 2 Peter 3:9

no: Jeremiah 5:1, Isaiah 59:16, Ezekiel 22:30, Micah 7:2

saying: Job 10:2, Ezekiel 18:28, Haggai 1:5, Haggai 1:7, Luke 15:17-19

as: Jeremiah 2:24, Jeremiah 2:25, Job 39:19-25

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:21 - the imagination Job 39:21 - he goeth Psalms 32:9 - no Psalms 36:4 - setteth Psalms 53:3 - Every Psalms 94:8 - brutish Isaiah 50:2 - when I came Jeremiah 8:19 - Why Jeremiah 23:25 - heard Jeremiah 44:16 - we Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Ezekiel 18:14 - considereth Hosea 7:10 - and they Zephaniah 3:7 - Surely Matthew 11:20 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I hearkened and heard,.... These are either, the words of the prophet, as Kimchi and Abarbinel think; who listened and attended to, and made his observations upon, the words and actions, conduct and behaviour, of this people, of which he gives an account: or of the Lord himself, as the Targum; who hearkened to the language of their hearts and actions, and heard the words of their mouth; all that they spoke against him, against his prophets, and those that feared his name; all their lying words, their false swearing; all their oaths and curses, and every idle expression that dropped from them; all which he takes notice of, and men are accountable to him for them:

but they spake not aright: what is so in the sight of God and good men; what is agreeable to right reason, and the word of God; they spoke what was contrary to all this. Wicked men neither think aright, nor act aright, nor speak aright.

No man repented him of his wickedness: of his heart, of his lips, and of his life; no man can repent of himself; no man truly does, without the grace of God:

saying, what have I done? which question an impenitent man does not put; but when it is made, the true answer to be returned to it is, that which is contrary to the nature of God; which is a breach of his law; which a man has reason to be ashamed of; at which he may be astonished, it being so exceeding sinful; that which cast the angels out of heaven, Adam out of paradise, and wicked men down to hell; which is deserving of the wrath of God, and eternal death; for which a man can never make atonement himself; and by which he is undone, to all intents and purposes, without an interest in Christ, and salvation by him.

Every one turneth to his course: which is not a good, but a bad one; sin is a way, a road, a path, in which men walk; a course, a series of sinning, a progress and persisting in it; such as the course of this world, and this course is evil, Ephesians 2:2:

as the horse rusheth into the battle, which denotes their swiftness to commit sin, the pleasure they take in it, and their inattention to danger, and death by it; see Job 39:21, or overflows c; the impetuosity of the horse is expressed by the overflowing of a river.

c כסוס שוטף "quasi equus ferox", Heb. "inundans", Piscator; "sisut equus effundens se", Schmidt. So Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I hearkened and heard - God, before passing sentence, carefully listens to the words of the people. Compare Genesis 11:5, where the divine judgment is preceded by the Almighty going down to see the tower.

Not aright - Or, “not-right;” which in the Hebrew idiom means that which is utterly wrong.

No man repented - The original phrase is very striking: No “man had pity upon his own wickedness.” If men understood the true nature of sin, the sinner would repent out of very pity upon himself.

As the horse rusheth - literally, “overfloweth.” It is a double metaphor; first, the persistence of the people in sin is compared to the fury which at the sound of the trumpet seizes upon the war-horse; and then its rush into the battle is likened to the overflowing of a torrent, which nothing can stop in its destructive course.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 8:6. As the horse rusheth into the battle. — This strongly marks the unthinking, careless desperation of their conduct.