Jeremiah 7:16
“Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Therefore pray not thou for this people,.... These are the words of the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah, forbidding him to…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
They had reached that stage in which men sin without any sense of guilt (see 1Jo 5:16). Neither make intercession to me…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Jeremiah 7:16-20
God had shown them, in the foregoing verses, that the temple and the service of it, of which they boasted and in which…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921Jeremiah 7:16-20
See introd. note on the section and cp. Jer 15:1. It is hardly probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address,…
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