Jeremias 6:10

10 A quem falarei e testemunharei, para que ouçam? eis que os seus ouvidos estão incircuncisos, e eles não podem ouvir; eis que a palavra do Senhor se lhes tornou em opróbrio; nela não têm prazer.

Jeremias 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?
&c.] These are the words of the prophet, despairing of any success by his ministry; suggesting that the people were so universally depraved, that there were none that would hear him; that speaking to them was only beating the air, and that all expostulations, warnings, remonstrances, and testimonies, would signify nothing: behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken;
their ears were stopped with the filth of sin naturally, and they wilfully stopped their ears like the adder; and so being unsanctified, they neither could hear nor desired to hear the word of the Lord, as to understand it; see ( Acts 7:51 ) : behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach;
they reproached it, and blasphemed it, as a novel and false doctrine, and thought it a dishonour to them to receive and profess it; and just so the Jews vilified the Gospel, in the times of Christ and his apostles; and as many do now, who treat it with contempt, as unworthy of God, as contrary to reason, as opening a door to licentiousness, and think it a scandal to preach or profess it: they have no delight in it;
they see no beauty nor glory in it; they taste nothing of the sweetness of it; its doctrines are insipid things to them, they having never felt the power of it in their hearts; whereas such who are the true circumcision, who are circumcised in heart and ears, who are born again, these desire the sincere milk of the word; it is to them more than their necessary food; and, with this Prophet Jeremiah, they find it, and eat it, and it is the joy and rejoicing of their hearts, ( Jeremiah 15:16 ) .

Jeremias 6:10 In-Context

8 Sê avisada, ó Jerusalém, para que não me aparte de ti; para que eu não te faça uma assolação, uma terra não habitada.

9 Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos: Na verdade respigarão o resto de Israel como uma vinha; torna a tua mão, como o vindimador, aos ramos.

10 A quem falarei e testemunharei, para que ouçam? eis que os seus ouvidos estão incircuncisos, e eles não podem ouvir; eis que a palavra do Senhor se lhes tornou em opróbrio; nela não têm prazer.

11 Pelo que estou cheio de furor do Senhor; estou cansado de o conter; derrama-o sobre os meninos pelas ruas, e sobre a assembléia dos jovens também; porque até o marido com a mulher serão presos, e o velho com o que está cheio de dias.

12 As suas casas passarão a outros, como também os seus campos e as suas mulheres; porque estenderei a minha mão contra os habitantes da terra, diz o Senhor.