Jeremiah 17:12

A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. The temple, which was a sanctified place, where the holy God dwelt, his holy worship was observed, and his holy people met…

In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin. Jer 17:6 Like the heath - Or, “like a destitute man” Psa 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or fear) and…

Here, as often before, we have the prophet retired for private meditation, and alone with God. Those ministers that would have comfort in their work must be much so. In his converse here with God and…

These verses, the third of the small group of isolated pieces (see above) which compose this sub-section, are probably to be taken in close connexion, the whole of Jer 17:17 being in form an…