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Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don`t know the law of Yahweh.
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Nature's Rebuke
Commentators explain that Jeremiah uses a powerful analogy: migratory birds instinctively obey God's created order by migrating at their appointed times. In stark contrast, God's people, who possess reason and His revealed law, fail to recognize their spiritual season. As one scholar notes, the instinct of animals can be a surer guide than human wisdom that ignores God's Spirit.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Jeremiah appeals to the obedience which migratory birds render to the law of their natures. The “stork” arrives in Palestine about March 21, and af…
19th Century
Anglican
The stork in the heaven. —The eye of the prophet looked on nature at once with the quick observation of one who is alive to all he…
Baptist
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here again Jeremiah condemns the shameful insensibility of the people—that they had less wisdom than birds, not endowed with reason and understandi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times Of going and returning; for this is a bird of passage, as P…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet shows their stubbornness and hardness in sin. For this reason, this section is distinct from everything that has come before it.<…
