Teks -- Jeremiah 6:18 (NET)

6:18 So the Lord said, “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.

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Wesley: Jer 6:18 - Nations

He calls upon the nations round about to be spectators of his severity against Judah.

Wesley: Jer 6:18 - What

The greatness of their punishment, as the effect of the greatness of their sins.

JFB: Jer 6:18 - congregation

Parallel to "nations"; it therefore means the gathered peoples who are invited to be witnesses as to how great is the perversity of the Israelites (Jer 6:16-17), and that they deserve the severe punishment about to be inflicted on them (Jer 6:19).

JFB: Jer 6:18 - what is among them

What deeds are committed by the Israelites (Jer 6:16-17) [MAURER]. Or, "what punishments are about to be inflicted on them" [CALVIN].

Calvin: Jer 6:18 - NO PHRASE

He turns now to address the nations, which had never heard anything of true religion. But the design of the apostrophe was, to make the Jews ashamed of their insensibility and deafness, for more attention and understanding were found among heathen nations. This was surely very great shame: the Jews had been plainly taught by the Law and by the Prophets, God had continued morning and evening to repeat the same things to them, that the nations, who had never heard the prophets and to whom the Law had not been given, should still be endued with more understanding and judgment than the Jews — this was very shameful and really monstrous. Thus the Prophet’s design was to expose their disgraceful conduct by addressing the nations, and saying, Hear, ye nations

Then he says, Know, thou assembly The words used are דעי , doi, and עדה , ode; and though the letters are inverted, there is yet an alliteration by no means ungraceful. With regard to the meaning, the Prophet shews that he found no disciples among the elect people, for they were like brute beasts or stones or trunks; he therefore turned to address the nations, as he despaired of any fruit to his labors among the Jews: ye nations, then, hear, and know, thou assembly, (the reference is to any people,) what shall be to them Some interpreters apply this to their vices, and give this version, “What their state is, “ or, “What atrocious vices prevail and reign among them.” But I prefer to apply it to their punishment, though I do not contend for this view, as there is a probability in favor of the other. But the Prophet seems here to send for the nations, that they might be witnesses of the just vengeance of God, because the people’s impiety had become irreclaimable. “Hear then what shall be done to them.” He had threatened the Jews as he had done before, and as he will often do hereafter; but his design in this place was to reproach them for being so intractable; for he expected that his labors would produce more fruit among the nations than among them. ¹⁷⁹

TSK: Jer 6:18 - hear

hear : Jer 4:10, Jer 31:10; Deu 29:24-28; Psa 50:4-6; Isa 5:3; Mic 6:5

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Poole: Jer 6:18 - Know, O congregation // What is among them

Ver. 18, Hear, ye nations: he calls upon the nations round about to be as so many spectators of his severity against Judah, though they were his own people.

1. Partly to vindicate the justice of his proceedings, that they may not think him too severe.

2. Partly to shame them, if thereby tie may bring them to repentance; and therefore he makes them witnesses as well of their sin as of their punishment, Jer 6:19 . Besides,

3. It is a secret upbraiding them, as if the nations were more ready to understand than they.

Know, O congregation either of Israel, and then the next words must be which are among them; or rather, of all nations, as supposing them gathered all together, Psa 7:7 . God is willing that all the world should be witness of the equity of his proceedings.

What is among them or, that which is among them ; the relative put for the antecedent; either the height of their wickedness, or the severity of their judgments; understand it either way, or both ways, and then it is the greatness of their punishment, as the effect of the greatness of their sins.

Haydock: Jer 6:18 - Congregation

Congregation. Septuagint, "shepherds feeding their flocks have heard." The Chaldeans are apprised of my resolution against Juda. (Calmet) ---

After the Jews had been called repeatedly in vain, the Gentiles obey, Matthew x. 5. (Worthington)

Gill: Jer 6:18 - Therefore hear, ye nations // and know, O congregation // what is among them

Therefore hear, ye nations,.... Since the Jews refused to hearken to the word of the Lord, the Gentiles are called upon to hear it, as in Act 13:45, this is a rebuke to the Jews, that the Gentiles would hear, when they would not:

and know, O congregation; either of Israel, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it; or of the nations of the world, the multitude of them; or the church of God in the midst of them:

what is among them; among the Jews: either what evil is among them; what sins and transgressions are committed by them; which were the cause of the Lord's threatening them with sore judgments, and bringing them upon them; so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret the words; to which agrees the Targum,

"and let the congregation of Israel know their sins;''

or the punishments the Lord inflicted on them: so the Vulgate Latin version, "and know, O congregation, what I will do unto them"; which sense is confirmed by what follows: