In their defense of themselves , the people probably appealed to the maintenance of the daily sacrifice and the Mosaic ritual; and, even more confi…

How canst thou say ...? —The prophet hears, as it were, the voice of the accused criminal, with its plea of “not guilty.”…

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, tha…

Jeremiah continues here with his reproof and dissipates the clouds of hypocrites, under which they thought themselves to be sufficiently hidden. Fo…

How can you say, I am not polluted
No man can say this; for all are defiled with sin; but this was the cast and comp…

Despite all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. People are often as much under the power of their un…

1. Here, he removes their excuses.

   1. They might bring up the neglect of the farmer. Against this, he says, I have planted…