We are delivered - Jeremiah accuses them of trusting in the ceremonial of the temple instead of leading holy lives. “You break,” he says, “t…

(10) And come and stand. —Better, and then have you come, and stood before me.

We are delivered.<…

Will you quote the very decree of God as an excuse for your sin?

Will you make it out that even he is partaker in your criminality?

Tha…

The meaning seems to be suspended in the first verse, when he says, Whether to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery, etc.; but there is …

And come and stand before me in this house
In the temple; this they did after they had been guilty of such immoralit…

No observances, professions, or supposed revelations will profit, if people do not amend their ways and their actions. None can claim an interest i…

1. Here, the prophet excludes the third means of a istance on which the people might have relied: the practice of their religion. He addre e…