Jeremiah 11:7

7 'For I solemnly ¹warned your fathers in the ²day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, ³warning persistently, saying, "⁴Listen to My voice."

Jeremiah 11:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 11:7

For I earnestly protested unto your fathers
Or "witnessing, witnessed" ^F7; testified his great affection for them; importunately solicited their observation of his precepts for their good; and strictly cautioned them against neglect and disobedience: the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;
(See Gill on Jeremiah 11:4): even unto this day, rising early, and protesting, saying, obey my
voice;
that is, from the time of the giving of the law, in all successive ages, to the present time, he had sent his prophets to them, time after time, morning by morning, early and late, to press, exhort, and stir them up to an obedience to his will, and to warn them of the evils that would come by disobedience to it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (ytdeh deh) "testificando tesficatus sum", Schmidt; "contestando contestatus sum", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius.

Jeremiah 11:7 In-Context

5 in order to confirm the oath which I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day."' " Then I said, "Amen, O LORD ."

6 And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, 'Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

7 'For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning persistently, saying, "Listen to My voice."

8 'Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.' "

9 Then the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Samuel 8:9
• 2. Jeremiah 11:4
• 3. Exodus 15:26; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Jeremiah 7:25
• 4. Jeremiah 11:7

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "rising early and warning"