Jeremias 6:10

10 A quem posso eu falar ou advertir?Quem me escutará?Os ouvidos deles são obstinados,^[a]e eles não podem ouvir.A palavra do SENHOR é para eles desprezível,não encontram nela motivo de 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 Ouça a minha advertência, ó Jerusalém!Do contrário eu me afastarei inteiramente de vocêe farei de você uma desolação,uma terra desabitada”.

9 Assim diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos:“Rebusque-se o remanescente de Israeltão completamente como se faz com uma videira,como faz quem colhe uvas:e você, repasse os ramos cacho por cacho”.

10 A quem posso eu falar ou advertir?Quem me escutará?Os ouvidos deles são obstinados,e eles não podem ouvir.A palavra do SENHOR é para eles desprezível,não encontram nela motivo de prazer.

11 Mas a ira do SENHOR dentro de mim transborda,já não posso retê-la.“Derrama-a sobre as crianças na ruae sobre os jovens reunidos em grupos;pois eles também serão pegos com os maridos e as mulheres,os velhos e os de idade bem avançada.

12 As casas deles serão entregues a outros,com os seus campos e as suas mulheres,quando eu estender a minha mãocontra os que vivem nesta terra”,declara o SENHOR.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebraico: "incircuncisos."