ירמיה 8:6

Hebrew Modern Translation

הקשבתי ואשמע לוא כן ידברו אין איש נחם על רעתו לאמר מה עשיתי כלה שב במרצותם כסוס שוטף במלחמה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
הקשבתי ואשמע לוא כן ידברו אין איש נחם על רעתו לאמר מה עשיתי כלה שב במרצותם (במרוצתם) כסוס שוטף במלחמה

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
הִקְשַׁ֤בְתִּי וָֽאֶשְׁמָע֙ לוֹא־כֵ֣ן יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ אֵ֣ין אִ֗ישׁ נִחָם֙ עַל־רָ֣עָתֹ֔ו לֵאמֹ֖ר מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑יתִי כֻּלֹּ֗ה שָׁ֚ב *בִּמְרֻצוֹתָם **בִּמְר֣וּצָתָ֔ם כְּס֥וּס שׁוֹטֵ֖ף בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
הִקְשַׁבְתִּי וָֽאֶשְׁמָע לוֹא־כֵן יְדַבֵּרוּ אֵין אִישׁ נִחָם עַל־רָעָתוֹ לֵאמֹר מֶה עָשִׂיתִי כֻּלֹּה ב בִּמְרוּצָתָםבִּמְרֻצוֹתָם| כְּסוּס שׁוֹטֵף בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hearkened: Job 33:27, Job 33:28, Psalms 14:2, Isaiah 30:18, Malachi 3:16, 2 Peter 3:9

no: Jeremiah 5:1, Isaiah 59:16, Ezekiel 22:30, Micah 7:2

saying: Job 10:2, Ezekiel 18:28, Haggai 1:5, Haggai 1:7, Luke 15:17-19

as: Jeremiah 2:24, Jeremiah 2:25, Job 39:19-25

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:21 - the imagination Job 39:21 - he goeth Psalms 32:9 - no Psalms 36:4 - setteth Psalms 53:3 - Every Psalms 94:8 - brutish Isaiah 50:2 - when I came Jeremiah 8:19 - Why Jeremiah 23:25 - heard Jeremiah 44:16 - we Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Ezekiel 18:14 - considereth Hosea 7:10 - and they Zephaniah 3:7 - Surely Matthew 11:20 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I hearkened and heard,.... These are either, the words of the prophet, as Kimchi and Abarbinel think; who listened and attended to, and made his observations upon, the words and actions, conduct and behaviour, of this people, of which he gives an account: or of the Lord himself, as the Targum; who hearkened to the language of their hearts and actions, and heard the words of their mouth; all that they spoke against him, against his prophets, and those that feared his name; all their lying words, their false swearing; all their oaths and curses, and every idle expression that dropped from them; all which he takes notice of, and men are accountable to him for them:

but they spake not aright: what is so in the sight of God and good men; what is agreeable to right reason, and the word of God; they spoke what was contrary to all this. Wicked men neither think aright, nor act aright, nor speak aright.

No man repented him of his wickedness: of his heart, of his lips, and of his life; no man can repent of himself; no man truly does, without the grace of God:

saying, what have I done? which question an impenitent man does not put; but when it is made, the true answer to be returned to it is, that which is contrary to the nature of God; which is a breach of his law; which a man has reason to be ashamed of; at which he may be astonished, it being so exceeding sinful; that which cast the angels out of heaven, Adam out of paradise, and wicked men down to hell; which is deserving of the wrath of God, and eternal death; for which a man can never make atonement himself; and by which he is undone, to all intents and purposes, without an interest in Christ, and salvation by him.

Every one turneth to his course: which is not a good, but a bad one; sin is a way, a road, a path, in which men walk; a course, a series of sinning, a progress and persisting in it; such as the course of this world, and this course is evil, Ephesians 2:2:

as the horse rusheth into the battle, which denotes their swiftness to commit sin, the pleasure they take in it, and their inattention to danger, and death by it; see Job 39:21, or overflows c; the impetuosity of the horse is expressed by the overflowing of a river.

c כסוס שוטף "quasi equus ferox", Heb. "inundans", Piscator; "sisut equus effundens se", Schmidt. So Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I hearkened and heard - God, before passing sentence, carefully listens to the words of the people. Compare Genesis 11:5, where the divine judgment is preceded by the Almighty going down to see the tower.

Not aright - Or, “not-right;” which in the Hebrew idiom means that which is utterly wrong.

No man repented - The original phrase is very striking: No “man had pity upon his own wickedness.” If men understood the true nature of sin, the sinner would repent out of very pity upon himself.

As the horse rusheth - literally, “overfloweth.” It is a double metaphor; first, the persistence of the people in sin is compared to the fury which at the sound of the trumpet seizes upon the war-horse; and then its rush into the battle is likened to the overflowing of a torrent, which nothing can stop in its destructive course.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 8:6. As the horse rusheth into the battle. — This strongly marks the unthinking, careless desperation of their conduct.