In the rest of the chapter, we have an outbreak of deep emotion, the first part of which ends in a cry of hope (Jeremiah 20:13), follow…

The cities which the Lord overthrew. —The verb is the same as that used in Genesis 19:29, and the reference is clearly to the “cit…

It seems, as I have said, that the Prophet was inconsistent with himself; from joy and thanksgiving he immediately passed into curses and denunciat…

And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew ,
&c.] In his fury, as the Targum and Septuagint add. Mea…

When grace has the victory, it is good to be ashamed of our folly, to admire the goodness of God, and to be warned to guard our spirits in the futu…

1. Here, he laments the origin of his birth.

But one may object to this, for it is the duty of the saints to glory in tribulations, as…