Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 20:7

"O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me." — Jeremiah 20:7 (ASV)

O Lord, thou hast deceived me. —There is an obvious break between Jeremiah 20:6-7. The narrative ends, and a psalm of passionate complaint begins. Its position probably indicates that the compiler of the prophecies in their present form looked on the complaints as belonging to this period of the prophet’s work, representing the thoughts of that night of shame which was, as it were, the extremest point of apparent failure. This then was the end of his prophetic calling, this the fulfillment of the promise which told him that he was set over the nations, and that his enemies should not prevail against him (Jeremiah 1:8–10). Some touches of this feeling we have heard already in Jeremiah 15:18. Now it is more dominant and continuous.

Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed. —Better, you have laid hold on me. Jehovah now appears to the prophet as a hard taskmaster who had forced him, against his will (Jeremiah 17:16), to enter on a work from which he shrank, and who gave him scorn and derision as his only wage. He felt, in St. Paul’s language, that a necessity was laid upon him (1 Corinthians 9:16); or in Isaiah’s, that the strong hand of the Lord was on him (Isaiah 8:11).

Daily. —Literally, all the day.