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Yahweh said to me, Don`t pray for this people for [their] good.
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Judgment Was Set
Commentators explain that God's command was not a rejection of prayer itself, but a declaration that the temporal judgment of exile was now irreversible. This is the third time God gives this command to Jeremiah, highlighting that after prolonged rebellion and rejected warnings, a point of no return had been reached for the nation's physical deliverance.
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Jeremiah
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19th Century
Anglican
Pray not ... — As before, in Jeremiah 7:16 and Jeremiah 11:14, the saddest, sternest part of the prophet’s work is to fee…
Baptist
"You may pray, if you like to do so, for a plague to come upon them as a chastisement for their sins, but do not pray for any blessing for them."
16th Century
Protestant
God first forbids the Prophet to pray for the people, as we have previously seen (Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah 11:14). But we mu…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said the Lord unto me To the prophet; now the Lord gives a more direct answer to him, and to his prayers and interce…
Presbyterian
The Lord calls the Jews "this people," not "his people." They had forsaken his service; therefore, he would punish them according to their sins. He…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet begins to pray to God for the people.
He makes his case with three arguments:
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