John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 11:8

"Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not." — Jeremiah 11:8 (ASV)

Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear Though they had such strong solicitations and fair warnings, and these repeated again and again; all which was an aggravation of their disobedience and stubbornness:

but walked everyone in the imagination of their evil heart ; which is desperately wicked, and is evil, and that continually, even every imagination of it; therefore walking herein must be very wide and different from walking in the law of the Lord, and obeying that; see (Jeremiah 3:17) (7:24) :

therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant ; that is, all the curses and threatenings denounced in it against the disobedient; and so the Targum,``and I brought upon them vengeance (or punishment) because they received not the words of this covenant:'' which I commanded them to do, but they did them not; because they did not do the commands of the law, therefore the curses of it lighted on them; for the words of the preceding clause may be rendered, "and I brought upon them" ^F8 ; and it is suggested that the like punishment would be inflicted on the present generation, they imitating and pursuing the iniquities of their fathers; as follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: (Mhyle aybaw) "et induxi", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "ideo adduxi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "et feci ut venirent", Cocceius.