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You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don`t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
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A Call to Urgent Action
Commentators explain that "girding up the loins" was a cultural expression for preparing for immediate and strenuous action. God was calling Jeremiah to a difficult, urgent task that required resolve and readiness. This command, echoed in the New Testament (1 Peter 1:13), calls believers to be prepared for swift and earnest service.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Gird up thy loins — This is a symbol of preparation for earnest exertion, also implying firm purpose and a degree of alacrity.
19th Century
Anglican
Gird up thy loins. —Be as the messenger who prepares to be swift on his errand, and to go wherever he is sent ([Reference 1 Kings …
Baptist
And arise, –
"There must be no waiting, no idleness: 'Arise,'" –
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16th Century
Protestant
God first commands His prophet to be the herald of the dreadful judgment, which we have already noticed. For it was not His purpose to speak only, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You therefore gird up your loins. The loins both of his mind and body. The allusion is to the custom of the eastern count…
God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond tree, which blooms earlier in the spring than any o…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the author describes the destruction of Jerusalem itself.
He speaks of the incitement to see, what do you see?, as menti…
