As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me. As a well pours out its waterThe imagery of a well is significant in the ancient Near Eastern context, where water sources were vital for survival. The Hebrew word for "well" (בְּאֵר, be'er) often symbolizes life and sustenance. In this verse, the well is used metaphorically to describe the natural and continuous outpouring of something inherent. Just as a well naturally overflows with water, the city of Jerusalem is depicted as naturally overflowing with its own wickedness. This imagery underscores the idea that the sinfulness of the people is not an occasional lapse but a constant and inherent condition. so she pours out her wickedness
The phrase "pours out her wickedness" suggests an unrestrained and abundant flow of evil actions and intentions. The Hebrew word for "wickedness" (רָעָה, ra'ah) encompasses a broad range of moral failings, including injustice, idolatry, and violence. This phrase indicates that the people of Jerusalem are not merely committing isolated acts of sin but are characterized by a pervasive and habitual state of moral corruption. The use of the word "pours" implies that this wickedness is not only abundant but also unstoppable, much like water flowing from a well. Violence and destruction resound in her
The terms "violence" (חָמָס, chamas) and "destruction" (שֹׁד, shod) are often paired in the Hebrew Bible to describe the social and moral chaos resulting from sin. These words paint a picture of a society in turmoil, where the breakdown of justice and order leads to widespread suffering. The word "resound" suggests that these acts of violence and destruction are not hidden or isolated but are loud and pervasive, echoing throughout the city. This highlights the extent to which sin has permeated the community, affecting every aspect of life. before Me continually
The phrase "before Me continually" emphasizes the omnipresence and omniscience of God. The Hebrew word for "continually" (תָּמִיד, tamid) suggests an unending and persistent state. This indicates that the wickedness of Jerusalem is not only constant but also ever-present in the sight of God. It serves as a reminder that nothing is hidden from God, and He is fully aware of the moral state of His people. This awareness underscores the seriousness of their sin and the inevitability of divine judgment. are grief and wounds
The words "grief" (מַכְאוֹב, mak'ob) and "wounds" (נֶחָלָה, nechalah) convey the deep emotional and physical consequences of sin. Grief refers to the sorrow and anguish that result from living in a society marked by violence and injustice. Wounds suggest the tangible harm and suffering inflicted upon individuals and the community as a whole. Together, these terms highlight the destructive impact of sin, not only on the relationship between the people and God but also on their relationships with one another. This serves as a sobering reminder of the cost of turning away from God's ways. Persons / Places / Events 1. JeremiahA prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and judgment to the people of Judah. His ministry spanned the reigns of several kings and was marked by his deep emotional connection to the messages he delivered. 2. JerusalemThe city referred to metaphorically as a well that gushes forth wickedness. It was the capital of Judah and the spiritual center for the Israelites, but at this time, it was steeped in sin and idolatry. 3. GodThe speaker in this verse, expressing His observation of the persistent sinfulness of Jerusalem. God is portrayed as a just judge who is deeply grieved by the moral decay of His people. 4. Violence and DestructionThese are the consequences of the wickedness that Jerusalem is pouring out. They are both literal and symbolic of the societal breakdown and impending judgment. 5. Sickness and WoundsThese represent the spiritual and physical consequences of sin. They are ever-present before God, indicating the pervasive nature of the people's rebellion. Teaching Points The Nature of SinSin is not a static condition but is often described as something that overflows or gushes forth, much like water from a well. This imagery suggests that sin, if unchecked, will continue to spread and affect all areas of life. God's AwarenessGod is fully aware of the sins of His people. The imagery of sickness and wounds being ever before Him indicates that nothing is hidden from His sight. This should lead us to live lives of transparency and repentance. Consequences of SinThe violence and destruction mentioned are both the natural and divine consequences of persistent sin. Understanding this should motivate believers to pursue righteousness and justice. Call to RepentanceThe passage serves as a call to repentance. Just as Jerusalem was called to turn from its wicked ways, believers today are called to examine their lives and turn back to God. Spiritual HealthThe imagery of sickness and wounds can be applied to our spiritual health. Just as physical wounds need treatment, so do spiritual wounds require the healing touch of God through confession and repentance. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the imagery of a well gushing forth water help us understand the nature of sin in our lives? 2. In what ways can we ensure that our spiritual "wounds" are healed and not left to fester? 3. How does God's awareness of our sinfulness impact our daily walk with Him? 4. What are some modern-day examples of "violence and destruction" that result from unchecked sin, and how can we address them as Christians? 5. How can we apply the call to repentance found in Jeremiah 6:7 to our personal lives and our communities? Connections to Other Scriptures Isaiah 1:4-6This passage similarly describes the sinful state of Judah and Jerusalem, using the imagery of sickness and wounds to depict their spiritual condition. Ezekiel 7:23This verse speaks of the land being filled with violence and the city with injustice, echoing the themes of violence and destruction in Jeremiah 6:7. Hosea 7:1Hosea also uses the imagery of a city pouring out wickedness, highlighting the persistent sinfulness of the people. People Benjamin, JeremiahPlaces Beth-haccherem, Jerusalem, Sheba, Tekoa, ZionTopics Behaviour, Casteth, Casts, Cistern, Cold, Continually, Cruel, Destruction, Devastation, Digged, Digging, Disease, Evil, Face, Forth, Fountain, Fresh, Grief, Keeps, Poureth, Pours, Resound, Sickness, Smiting, Spoil, Spring, Violence, Violent, Waters, Welleth, Wickedness, Within, WoundsDictionary of Bible Themes Jeremiah 6:7 4296 wells Library Stedfastness in the Old Paths.
"Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls."--Jer. vi. 16. Reverence for the old paths is a chief Christian duty. We look to the future indeed with hope; yet this need not stand in the way of our dwelling on the past days of the Church with affection and deference. This is the feeling of our own Church, as continually expressed in the Prayer Book;--not to slight what has gone before, …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIIA Blast of the Trumpet against False Peace
The motive with these false prophets is an abominable one. Jeremiah tells us it was an evil covetousness. They preached smooth things because the people would have it so, because they thus brought grist to their own mill, and glory to their own names. Their design was abominable, and without doubt, their end shall be desperate--cast away with the refuse of mankind. These who professed to be the precious sons of God, comparable to fine gold, shall be esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 6: 1860 Whitefield -- the Method of Grace
George Whitefield, evangelist and leader of Calvinistic Methodists, who has been called the Demosthenes of the pulpit, was born at Gloucester, England, in 1714. He was an impassioned pulpit orator of the popular type, and his power over immense congregations was largely due to his histrionic talent and his exquisitely modulated voice, which has been described as "an organ, a flute, a harp, all in one," and which at times became stentorian. He had a most expressive face, and altho he squinted, in …
Grenville Kleiser—The world's great sermons, Volume 3 Reprobation.
In discussing this subject I shall endeavor to show, I. What the true doctrine of reprobation is not. 1. It is not that the ultimate end of God in the creation of any was their damnation. Neither reason nor revelation confirms, but both contradict the assumption, that God has created or can create any being for the purpose of rendering him miserable as an ultimate end. God is love, or he is benevolent, and cannot therefore will the misery of any being as an ultimate end, or for its own sake. It is …
Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology Prefatory Scripture Passages.
To the Law and to the Testimony; if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.-- Isa. viii. 20. Thus saith the Lord; Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.--Jer. vi. 16. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. But …
G. H. Gerberding—The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church Jesus Raises the Widow's Son.
(at Nain in Galilee.) ^C Luke VII. 11-17. ^c 11 And it came to pass soon afterwards [many ancient authorities read on the next day], that he went into a city called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude. [We find that Jesus had been thronged with multitudes pretty continuously since the choosing of his twelve apostles. Nain lies on the northern slope of the mountain, which the Crusaders called Little Hermon, between twenty and twenty-five miles south of Capernaum, and about …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel Backsliding.
"I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away."--Hosea xiv. 4. There are two kinds of backsliders. Some have never been converted: they have gone through the form of joining a Christian community and claim to be backsliders; but they never have, if I may use the expression, "slid forward." They may talk of backsliding; but they have never really been born again. They need to be treated differently from real back-sliders--those who have been born of the incorruptible …
Dwight L. Moody—The Way to God and How to Find It An Obscured vision
(Preached at the opening of the Winona Lake Bible Conference.) TEXT: "Where there is no vision, the people perish."--Proverbs 29:18. It is not altogether an easy matter to secure a text for such an occasion as this; not because the texts are so few in number but rather because they are so many, for one has only to turn over the pages of the Bible in the most casual way to find them facing him at every reading. Feeling the need of advice for such a time as this, I asked a number of my friends who …
J. Wilbur Chapman—And Judas Iscariot Sin Charged Upon the Surety
All we like sheep have gone astray: we have turned every one to his own way, and the LORD hath laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. C omparisons, in the Scripture, are frequently to be understood with great limitation: perhaps, out of many circumstances, only one is justly applicable to the case. Thus, when our Lord says, Behold, I come as a thief (Revelation 16:15) , --common sense will fix the resemblance to a single point, that He will come suddenly, and unexpectedly. So when wandering sinners …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1 An Address to the Regenerate, Founded on the Preceding Discourses.
James I. 18. James I. 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. I INTEND the words which I have now been reading, only as an introduction to that address to the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, with which I am now to conclude these lectures; and therefore shall not enter into any critical discussion, either of them, or of the context. I hope God has made the series of these discourses, in some measure, useful to those …
Philip Doddridge—Practical Discourses on Regeneration Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and Ungodly Men.
Scriptures Showing The Sin And Danger Of Joining With Wicked And Ungodly Men. When the Lord is punishing such a people against whom he hath a controversy, and a notable controversy, every one that is found shall be thrust through: and every one joined with them shall fall, Isa. xiii. 15. They partake in their judgment, not only because in a common calamity all shares, (as in Ezek. xxi. 3.) but chiefly because joined with and partakers with these whom God is pursuing; even as the strangers that join …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be Admonished.
(Admonition 14.) Differently to be admonished are those who fear scourges, and on that account live innocently, and those who have grown so hard in wickedness as not to be corrected even by scourges. For those who fear scourges are to be told by no means to desire temporal goods as being of great account, seeing that bad men also have them, and by no means to shun present evils as intolerable, seeing they are not ignorant how for the most part good men also are touched by them. They are to be admonished …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great Christian Meekness
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth Matthew 5:5 We are now got to the third step leading in the way to blessedness, Christian meekness. Blessed are the meek'. See how the Spirit of God adorns the hidden man of the heart, with multiplicity of graces! The workmanship of the Holy Ghost is not only curious, but various. It makes the heart meek, pure, peaceable etc. The graces therefore are compared to needlework, which is different and various in its flowers and colours (Psalm 45:14). …
Thomas Watson—The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 Jeremiah
The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links Jeremiah 6:7 NIVJeremiah 6:7 NLTJeremiah 6:7 ESVJeremiah 6:7 NASBJeremiah 6:7 KJV
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