They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.
THE Prophet repeats what we have noticed in the sixth chapter: but it was necessary to reiterate often, to the deaf and the slothful, what had already been forgotten, or what had not touched their hearts. As these things have been already explained, I shall now only refer briefly to the main points. He no doubt condemns here the priests and the prophets.
The prophet here is instructed to set before this people the folly of their impenitence, which was it that brought this ruin upon them. They are here represented as the most stupid senseless people in the world, that would not be made wise by all the methods that Infinite Wisdom took to bring them to themselves and their right mind, and so to prevent the...
Commenting on Jeremiah 8:4-12
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people,.... See Gill on Jer 6:14, Jer 6:15. . Jeremiah 8:13 jer 8:13 jer 8:13 jer 8:13I will surely consume them, saith the Lord,.... Or, "gathering I will gather them" (k); into some one place, the city of Jerusalem, and there destroy them.