Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Jeremiah
Book: Jeremiah
Chapter: 19
Overview:
By the
Type of breaking an earthen vessel,
Jeremiah is to
predict the
Destruction of
Judah.
1-9 The
Prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon
Judah and
Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it. That place
which
Holiness made the joy of the whole
Earth,
Sin made the
reproach and shame of the whole
Earth. There is
No fleeing from
God's
Justice, but
By fleeing to his
Mercy.
10-15 The potter's vessel, after it is hardened, can never be
pieced again when it is broken. And as the
Bottle was broken,
So
shall
Judah and
Jerusalem be broken
By the Chaldeans.
No human
Hand can repair it; but if they return to the
Lord he will heal.
As they filled
Tophet with the slain sacrificed to their idols,
So will
God fill the whole
City with the slain that shall fall
as sacrifices to his
Justice. Whatever men may think,
God will
appear as terrible against
Sin and sinners as the Scriptures
state; nor shall the unbelief of men make his promise or his
threatenings of
No effect. The obstinacy of sinners in sinful
ways, is their own fault; if they are deaf to the
Word of God,
it is because they have stopped their ears. We have need to pray
that
God,
By his
Grace, would deliver us from hardness of
Heart,
and contempt of his
Word and
Commandments.