For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting , saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
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Gill's Exposition
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side,.... It was brought to the prophet's ears by some of his friends, how he was defamed by many, and these great and mighty ones, as the word also…
In the rest of the chapter we have an outbreak of deep emotion, of which the first part ends in a cry of hope Jer 20:13, followed nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this the result…
Pashur's doom was to be a terror to himself; Jeremiah, even now, in this hour of temptation, is far from being so; and yet it cannot be denied but that he is here, through the infirmity of the flesh,…
Cambridge Bible
defaming lit. probably, whispering. Cp. Psa 31:13.
watch for my halting Cp. Psa 35:15; Psa 38:17.
enticed into some act, which will lay him open to attack.
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