In Jeremiah 7–10, he addre es the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country to attend the solemn services in the temple on a fast day.…

The gate of the Lord’s house. — As a priest, Jeremiah would have access to all parts of the Temple. On some day when the courts we…

Many of them thought that, if they went up to the temple, it was all right with them, if they merely went through the outward ritual, they would ce…

Here the Prophet gives a short account of the sermon in which he severely reproved the people, because his labor had been useless, even though he h…

Stand in the gate of the Lord's house
That is, of the temple, and the court of it. This gate, as Kimchi says, was th…

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…