UYeremiya 5:5

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

5 Ndokha ndiye kwabakhulu, ndithethe nabo; ngokuba bayayazi bona indlela kaYehova, isiko loThixo wabo; ke bona bayaphule kunye idyokhwe, baziqhawula izitropu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

get me: Amos 4:1, Micah 3:1, Malachi 2:7

but these: Jeremiah 6:13, Psalms 2:2, Psalms 2:3, Ezekiel 22:6-8, Ezekiel 22:25-29, Micah 3:1-4, Micah 3:11, Micah 7:3, Micah 7:4, Zephaniah 3:3-5, Matthew 19:23-26, Luke 18:24, Luke 19:14, Acts 4:26, Acts 4:27, James 2:5-7

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 36:14 - all the chief Nehemiah 3:5 - their nobles Nehemiah 13:17 - I contended Job 32:9 - Great Psalms 49:2 - General Isaiah 1:5 - the whole Isaiah 1:23 - princes Isaiah 2:9 - the mean Isaiah 5:15 - the mean Isaiah 27:11 - for it is Isaiah 59:4 - calleth Jeremiah 5:23 - a revolting Jeremiah 6:10 - To whom Jeremiah 8:7 - know Jeremiah 42:1 - from Ezekiel 8:11 - seventy Ezekiel 11:2 - General Daniel 2:48 - a great Hosea 9:15 - all Micah 6:12 - the rich Nahum 1:13 - will burst Zechariah 11:7 - General Mark 7:18 - General Luke 14:18 - all John 7:48 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will get me unto the great men, and speak unto them,.... The princes, nobles, and judges, the elders of the people, the scribes and doctors of the law:

for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God; it might be reasonably expected that they had, having had a good education, and being at leisure from worldly business to attend to the law, and the knowledge of it, and whatsoever God had revealed in his word, both in a way of doctrine and duty:

but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds; the yoke of the law, and the bonds of his precepts, with which they were bound; these they broke off from them, and would not be obliged and restrained by them, but transgressed and rejected them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have known ... - Men of education, who read the Scriptures, and learn from them the nature of God’s judgments.

But these - literally, surely they (compare Jeremiah 5:4).

The yoke - The Mosaic law.

And burst ... - They have torn off, torn themselves loose from.

The bonds - The fastenings by which the yoke was fixed upon the necks of the oxen.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:5. I will get me unto the great men — Those whose circumstances and rank in life gave them opportunities of information which the others could not have, for the reasons already given.

These have altogether broken the yoke — These have cast aside all restraint, have acted above law, and have trampled all moral obligations under their feet, and into their vortex the lower classes of the people have been swept away. Solon said, "The laws are like cobwebs; they entangle the small fry, but the great ones go through them, and carry all away with them."