Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
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Gill's Exposition
Thus shalt thou say unto him,.... This is spoken to Jeremiah, and is an order from the Lord to him, what he should say in his name to Baruch:
the Lord saith thus, behold, that which I have built…
Barnes' Notes
Grief to my sorrow - Baruch’s sorrow is caused by the sinfulness of the Jewish nation, to which God adds grief by showing how severely it will be punished. I fainted in - Or, “am weary with” Psa 6:6.
How Baruch was employed in writing Jeremiah's prophecies, and reading them, we had an account ch. 36, and how he was threatened for it by the king, warrants being out for him and he forced to abscond,…
Cambridge Bible
sorrow to my pain The "pain" was caused by the thought of his fellow-countrymen's sins and of the judgements impending on them; the "sorrow" by knowing what was in store for himself.
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