Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jeremiah 8:12

"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah." — Jeremiah 8:12 (ASV)

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?

Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

They had gone so far that they could not blush. It is a dreadful thing when a man has lost the very sense of shame; there will be no repentance where that is the case.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?

nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:

What a striking expression is this! To what a condition of shameless obstinacy have men's minds been brought when it can be said of them, They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. The very power to be ashamed was taken from them. Surely, almost the last ray of any hope of salvation must be gone from the man who cannot blush at the thought of his own iniquity.