Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore pray not thou for this people,.... These are the words of the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah, forbidding him to pray for the people of the Jews; which he either was doing, or about to do, and…
Barnes' Notes
They had reached that stage in which men sin without any sense of guilt (see 1Jo 5:16). Neither make intercession to me - In Jer 14:7-9 we have an intercessory prayer offered by Jeremiah, but not…
God had shown them, in the foregoing verses, that the temple and the service of it, of which they boasted and in which they trusted, should not avail to prevent the judgment threatened. But there was…
See introd. note on the section and cp. Jer 15:1. It is hardly probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address, seeing that it gives us in fact Jehovah's words to His prophet abruptly inserted,…
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