Jeremiah 6:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

To whom

Jeremiah 5:4

Isaiah 28:9

Isaiah 53:1

Give

Hebrews 11:7

Their ear

Acts 7:51

The word

Delight

Bible References

To whom

Then I thought:

They are just the poor;
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.

Who is he trying to teach?
Who is he trying to instruct?
Infants just weaned from milk?
Babies removed from the breast?

Who has believed what we have heard?
And who has the arm of the Lord

been revealed to?

Give

If I say to the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him—you don’t speak out to warn him about his wicked way in order to save his life—that wicked person will die for his iniquity. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows his trumpet to warn the people.

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Their ear

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.
Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire
and burn with no one to extinguish it
because of your evil deeds.

However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate;

they did more evil than their ancestors.

But Moses said in the Lord’s presence: “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker?”

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Who among you will pay attention to this?
Let him listen and obey in the future.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

The word

For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I proclaim, “Violence and destruction!”
because the word of the Lord has become for me
constant disgrace and derision.

But Yahweh, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of His messengers, sending them time and time again, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words,

One of the experts in the law answered Him, “Teacher, when You say these things You insult us too.”

Then the scribes and the chief priests looked for a way to get their hands on Him that very hour, because they knew He had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.

Delight

Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.

I delight to do Your will, my God;
Your instruction lives within me.”

I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.

For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.