If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

Commentaries

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Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Those who are sick with famine. — Literally, with an even more terrible force, as summing all individual sufferings in one collect…

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

CharlesSpurgeon

19th Century
Baptist
19th Century

So God told Jeremiah that he could go and tell the people that he would weep continually for them. The faithful and sympathetic prophet was allowed…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

He confirms the same thing in other words, not because what he had said was obscure, but because he knew that he was speaking to the deaf, or that …

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

If I go forth into the field
Without the city, where was the camp of the enemy besieging it then behold …

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Jeremiah acknowledged his own sins, and those of the people, but pleaded with the Lord to remember his covenant. In their distress none of the idol…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

1. Here, he takes up his argument from the predictions of the prophets.

  1. He gives the intercession of the prophet: a, a, a

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