23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.
Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
They feed on the sin of my people, And set their heart on their iniquity.
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Commentary on Jeremiah 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 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.
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.
Jer 5:1-9
Here is,
Jer 5:10-19
We may observe in these verses, as before,
Jer 5:20-24
The prophet, having reproved them for sin and threatened the judgments of God against them, is here sent to them again upon another errand, which he must publish in Judah; the purport of it is to persuade them to fear God, which would be an effectual principle of their reformation, as the want of that fear had been at the bottom of their apostasy.
Jer 5:25-31
Here,