What is the meaning of Jeremiah 6:15?

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed?

• The Lord’s opening question exposes Judah’s moral condition. Their “abomination” is idolatry, injustice, and covenant-breaking (Jeremiah 2:11-13; 7:9-10).

• God expects genuine grief over sin, the kind David showed in Psalm 51:3-4.

• The rhetorical form implies the answer is “no,” setting up the charge that follows (Isaiah 1:3-4).

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No, they have no shame at all;

• The absence of shame signals a hardened conscience (Ephesians 4:18-19).

• Repeated sin without repentance dulls sensitivity to God’s standards (Proverbs 29:1).

• Refusing to blush is not merely emotional coldness; it is active rebellion against revealed truth (Romans 1:32).

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they do not even know how to blush.

• Blushing is an outward sign of inward conviction. When conviction dies, public sin thrives (Zephaniah 3:5).

• In Judah, leaders and people alike celebrated what God condemned (Jeremiah 5:30-31).

• This moral callousness contrasts sharply with Ezra’s response: “I am too ashamed and disgraced to lift my face to You” (Ezra 9:6).

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So they will fall among the fallen;

• Divine justice is certain. Just as earlier generations “fell in the wilderness” (Psalm 106:26), Judah will share their fate.

• “Among the fallen” hints at communal judgment; no one escapes when a nation ignores God (Lamentations 1:14).

• The phrase foreshadows the Babylonian invasion that will level the city and temple (2 Kings 25:8-10).

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when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.

• God Himself acts: judgment is personal, purposeful, and proportional (Jeremiah 9:15-16).

• Collapse pictures total failure—military, political, spiritual (Jeremiah 39:6-8).

• Yet even in judgment the Lord’s motive is corrective, aiming to lead a remnant to repentance (Jeremiah 29:11-14; Hebrews 12:6).

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summary

Jeremiah 6:15 unveils a people so desensitized to sin that shame is foreign to them. Because they refuse to blush, God announces inevitable collapse under His righteous punishment. The verse warns that when consciences are seared and truth is ignored, divine judgment is both just and certain, calling every generation to keep hearts tender, repent quickly, and honor the Lord’s standards.