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Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
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A Prayer for Correction, Not Wrath
Commentators highlight that Jeremiah's prayer is a model for believers in hardship. He doesn't ask to avoid God's discipline but pleads for it to be "with judgment" or "in measure." As Matthew Henry notes, the prayer is not "Lord, do not correct me," but "Lord, do not correct me in anger." This teaches us to accept God's corrective hand while appealing to His fatherly love to spare us from destructive wrath.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy ([Reference Jere…
19th Century
Anglican
With judgment. —The rendering is accurate, but the idea is, perhaps, better expressed by the translation of the same word in Jerem…
Baptist
And a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. O LORD, I know that the way of man …
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet again indirectly reproves and condemns the spiritual dullness of the people, because he saw that all his threats were despised.
T…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O Lord, correct me, but with judgment The prophet here represents the body of the Jewish nation, especially the godl…
The Jews who continued in their own land felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that …
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he seeks mercy.
He shows the necessity of seeking it: a man’s way is not his own, with regard to choice; …
