--- title: "Bullinger" description: "saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/8" --- **saith the LORD** = [is] Jehovah's oracle. **bones.** Note the Figure of speech *Repetitio* , for emphasis. **and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* , to emphasize each class as responsible for the corruption and apostasy. **and.** Particularizing here the details of the idolatry. **not be gathered.** Compare [2 Samuel 21:13](../../../kjv/2-samuel/21/13) . **evil.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 . **saith the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Jeremiah 6:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/6) . Compare [1 Samuel 1:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/3) . **arise** = rise up again. **he turn away, and.** The *Massorah* (vol. II, p. 54, Ginsburg's edition) calls attention to the fact that of the two words represented by "turn" and "and", the first letter of the second word belongs to the first word; so that this latter will read "shall they return [to Him], and He not return [to them]? It is the same word (in Hebrew) in both clauses. **knoweth.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), for the effect of acting on the knowledge. **turtle** = turtle-dove. **no man.** Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Genus), = scarcely any. **rejected.** The second of four downward steps. See note on [Jeremiah 6:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/10) . **give their wives unto others.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:30](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/30) ). App-92 . **inherit** = seize; or, to their dispossessors. **from.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, and Syriac, read "and from". **prophet. priest.** The former, raised up on account of the failure of the latter, now of one accord. **hurt** = breach. **Peace, peace** = perfect peace. Figure of speech *Epizeuxis.* Compare [Jeremiah 6:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/14) and [Isaiah 26:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/3) . **could they blush.** See note on [Jeremiah 6:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/15) . **the time of their visitation.** A phrase ("time" or "year") used eight times in Jeremiah ([Jeremiah 8:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/12) ; [Jeremiah 10:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/15) ; [Jeremiah 11:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11/23) ; [Jeremiah 23:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/12) ; [Jeremiah 46:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/21) ; [Jeremiah 48:44](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/44) ; [Jeremiah 50:27](../../../kjv/jeremiah/50/27) ; [Jeremiah 51:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/51/18) ). Nowhere else, except [Isaiah 10:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/3) .[Hosea 9:7](../../../kjv/hosea/9/7) . [Micah 7:4](../../../kjv/micah/7/4) , until our Lord used it in [Luke 19:44](../../../kjv/luke/19/44) . **surely consume them.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* . Hebrew. *'asoph 'asiphem.* **on the vine.** See note on [Jeremiah 6:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/9) . **shall fade** = is withered. **the things . . . from them:** or, I have appointed them those that shall pass over them. **Why . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis. verses:* 14-16 spoken by the prophet, not the People. They were being threatened for not doing what is here spoken of, verses: [Jeremiah 12:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/12/13) . Moreover, [Jeremiah 8:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/15) is spoken by Jeremiah in [Jeremiah 14:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/14/19) , which is an earlier passage, chronologically. **we:** i.e. the prophet to the People. God. Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **silence.** Figure of speech *Ploke* , the word being used in a different sense. **water of gall** = poppy water; = poisoned water. **sinned.** Hebrew. *chata'.* App-44 . **trouble** = terror. **Dan.** The Assyrians entered the land from the north. **cockatrices** = adders. **will not be charmed.** This shows that the People were not penitent, and verses: [Jeremiah 8:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/8) , [Jeremiah 8:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/14) , [Jeremiah 8:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/16) are not their words. **I:** i.e. the prophet again. **provoked . . . vanities.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/21) , same word). Compare [Jeremiah 7:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/19) . **graven Images.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 7:5](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/5) , same word). App-92 . **balm . . . physician.** The words of the prophet, showing that healing remedies were employed; thus accounting for the silence respecting them. Compare [Isaiah 1:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/6) . **balm** = balSamaritan Pentateuch Compare [Jeremiah 51:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/51/8) . **Gilead.** Compare [Jeremiah 46:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/11) . ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/8#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/8#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/8","name":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/8#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah's oracle. bones. 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