Jeremiah 20:8

For since I spake, I cried out,.... Or, "when I speak, I cry" (a); whensoever I speak in the name of the Lord, and deliver message from him to the people, I lift up my voice and cry aloud, that all…

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,…

Violence and spoil directed generally against himself. Cp. Jer 5:26-28; Jer 9:4.

a reproach unto me, and a derision Words applied to his own case by the great Florentine, Savonarola, "I have had…