Jeremiah 11:15 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Jeremiah 11:15

13 For according to the number of your ^acities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.

14 “So ^ado not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their trouble.

15 “What^a has My beloved to do in My house,
Having ^bdone lewd deeds with many?
And ^cthe holy flesh has passed from you.
When you do evil, then you ^drejoice.

16 The Lord called your name,
^aGreen Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit.
With the noise of a great tumult
He has kindled fire on it,
And its branches are broken.

17 “For the Lord of hosts, ^awho planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Jeremiah 11:15

my beloved—My elect people, Judea; this aggravates their ingratitude (Jeremiah 12:7).

lewdness with many— (Ezekiel 16:25). Rather, "that great (or, manifold) enormity"; literally, "the enormity, the manifold"; namely, their idolatry, which made their worship of God in the temple a mockery (compare Jeremiah 7:10; Ezekiel 23:39) [HENDERSON].

holy flesh— (Haggai 2:12-14; Titus 1:15), namely, the sacrifices, which, through the guilt of the Jews, were no longer holy, that is, acceptable to God. The sacrifices on which they relied will, therefore, no longer protect them. Judah is represented as a priest's wife, who, by adultery, has forfeited her share in the flesh of the sacrifices, and yet boasts of her prerogative at the very same time [HORSLEY].

when thou doest evil—literally, "when thy evil" (is at hand). PISCATOR translates, "When thy calamity is at hand (according to God's threats), thou gloriest" (against God, instead of humbling thyself). English Version is best (compare Proverbs 2:14).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 11:15:

Jeremiah 12:7
Haggai 2:12

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