Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
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Gill's Exposition
Woe is me for my hurt!.... Or "breach" (a); which was made upon the people of the Jews, when besieged, taken, and carried captive; with whom the prophet heartily sympathized, and considered their…
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jer 10:19 Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable. A…
In these verses,
I. The prophet threatens, in God's name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer 10:17, Jer 10:18. The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into…
Cambridge Bible
The prophet now begins a lament in the person of the nation.
my hurt See Jer 8:21.
grief lit., as mg., sickness. "We speak only of a personas being sick; Heb. speaks also of a woundas being sick."…
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