Geremia 7:15-25

15 E vi scaccerò dal mio cospetto, come ho scacciati i vostri fratelli, tutta la progenie di Efraim.

16 E tu, non pregar per questo popolo, e non prendere a gridare, o a fare orazione per loro; e non intercedere appo me; perciocchè io non ti esaudirò.

17 Non vedi tu quel che fanno nelle città di Giuda, e nelle piazze di Gerusalemme?

18 I figliuoli ricolgono le legne, e i padri accendono il fuoco, e le donne intridono la pasta, per far focacce alla regina del cielo, e per fare offerte da spandere ad altri dii, per dispettarmi.

19 Fanno essi dispetto a me? dice il Signore; anzi non fanno essi dispetto a loro stessi, alla confusion delle lor proprie facce?

20 Perciò, così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Ecco, la mia ira ed il mio cruccio sarà versato sopra questo luogo, sopra gli uomini, e sopra le bestie, e sopra gli alberi della campagna, e sopra i frutti della terra; ed arderà, e non si spengerà.

21 Così ha detto il Signor degli eserciti, l’Iddio d’Israele: Aggiungete pure i vostri olocausti a’ vostri sacrificii, e mangiate della carne.

22 Perciocchè io non parlai a’ vostri padri, nè diedi lor comandamento, quando li trassi fuor del paese di Egitto, intorno ad olocausti, ed a sacrificii.

23 Anzi comandai loro questo, cioè: Ascoltate la mia voce, ed io vi sarò Dio, e voi mi sarete popolo; e camminate in tutte le vie che io vi comando, acciocchè bene vi avvenga.

24 Ma essi non hanno ascoltato, e non hanno inchinato il loro orecchio; ma son camminati secondo i consigli, e la durezza del cuor loro malvagio; e sono andati indietro, e non innanzi.

25 Dal dì che i vostri padri uscirono del paese di Egitto, infino a questo giorno, io vi ho mandati tutti i miei servitori profeti, mandandoli ogni giorno, fin dalla mattina;

Geremia 7:15-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 7

In this chapter the Lord, by the prophet, calls the people of the Jews to repentance and reformation; reproves them for their vain confidence; and threatens them with destruction for their many sins, and particularly idolatry. The preface to all this is in Jer 7:1,2, the exhortation to amendment, encouraged to by a promise that they should dwell in the land, is in Jer 7:3, but this was not to be expected on account of the temple, and temple service; but through a thorough reformation of manners; an exercise of justice, and avoiding all oppression and idolatry, Jer 7:4-7, their vain confidence in the temple is exposed; they fancying that their standing there, and doing the service of it, would atone for their theft, murder, adultery, perjury, and idolatry; and that they might commit these with impunity; wherefore they are let to know, that so doing these they made the temple a house of thieves; and that for such wickedness, what the Lord had done to his place in Shiloh, which they are reminded of, he would to the temple, and to them, reject and cast them off, Jer 6:8-15, and seeing they also had a dependence on the prophet's prayer, he is bid not to pray for them, for his prayers would not he heard; and he is directed to observe their wretched idolatry, of which an instance is given, whereby they provoked the Lord to anger; and therefore he was determined to pour out his fury on man and beast, and on the trees and fruit of the field, Jer 7:16-20 and whereas they trusted in their burnt offerings and sacrifices, these are rejected, as being what were not originally commanded; but obedience to the moral law, and the precepts of it, which they refused to hearken to, though they were oft called upon to it by his servants the prophets, Jer 7:21-26, and it is foretold that the Prophet Jeremy would meet with the same treatment; that they would not hearken to his words, nor answer to his call; and therefore he should declare them a disobedient, incorrigible, and an unfaithful people, Jer 7:27,28 hence, either he, or Jerusalem, is called upon to cut off the hair, as a sign of mourning; for their rejection of the Lord, occasioned by their sins, and especially their idolatry, of which instances are given, Jer 7:29-31 and it is threatened that the place of their idolatry should be a place of slaughter and of burial, till there should be no room for more; and the carcasses of the rest should be the food of fowls and beasts; and all joy should cease from Judah and Jerusalem, Jer 7:32-34.