Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?" — Jeremiah 7:10 (ASV)
We are delivered - Jeremiah accuses them of trusting in the ceremonial of the temple instead of leading holy lives. “You break,” he says, “the Ten Commandments, and then you go to the Temple; and when the service is over you say, We are delivered. We have atoned for our past actions, and may start afresh with easy minds upon a new course of wickedness.”