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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 5:7 - 5:7
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It would not be consistent with God’s holiness to let such wickedness pass unpunished.
sworn by - (Jer 5:2; Jer 4:2); that is, worshipped.
no gods - (Deu 32:21).
fed ... to the full - so the Keri (Hebrew Margin) reads. God’s bountifulness is contrasted with their apostasy (Deu 32:15). Prosperity, the gift of God, designed to lead men to Him, often produces the opposite effect. The Hebrew Chetib (text) reads: “I bound them (to Me) by oath,” namely, in the marriage covenant, sealed at Sinai between God and Israel; in contrast to which stands their “adultery”; the antithesis favors this.
adultery ... harlots’ houses - spiritually: idolatry in temples of idols; but literal prostitution is also included, being frequently part of idol-worship: for example, in the worship of the Babylonian Mylitta.