Jeremías 6:10

10 ¿A quiénes hablaré y advertiré, para que oigan? He aquí, sus oídos están cerrados, y no pueden escuchar. He aquí, la palabra del SEÑOR les es oprobio; no se deleitan en ella.

Jeremías 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 ) .

Jeremías 6:10 In-Context

8 Sé precavida, oh Jerusalén, no sea que mi alma se aleje de ti; no sea que yo te convierta en desolación, en tierra despoblada.

9 Así dice el SEÑOR de los ejércitos: Buscarán, rebuscarán como en una vid el remanente de Israel; vuelve a pasar tu mano como el vendimiador por los sarmientos.

10 ¿A quiénes hablaré y advertiré, para que oigan? He aquí, sus oídos están cerrados, y no pueden escuchar. He aquí, la palabra del SEÑOR les es oprobio; no se deleitan en ella.

11 Pero yo estoy lleno del furor del SEÑOR, estoy cansado de retenerlo. Derrámalo sobre los niños en la calle, y sobre la reunión de los jóvenes; porque serán apresados tanto el marido como la mujer, el viejo y el muy anciano.

12 Y sus casas serán entregadas a otros, juntamente con sus campos y sus mujeres; porque extenderé mi mano contra los habitantes de esta tierradeclara el SEÑOR.