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You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
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God's Grief in Human Tears
Commentators explain that God commands Jeremiah to weep publicly. This wasn't just the prophet's personal sorrow; it was a divine message. By weeping when the people were apathetic, Jeremiah acted as a living mirror, showing them the terrible reality of their sin and the appropriate response of grief and repentance they should have been feeling.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A message from God to the effect that the calamity would be so overwhelming as to cause perpetual weeping; it is set before the people through the …
19th Century
Anglican
You shall say this word. —Though not in form a prediction, no words could express more emphatically the terrible nature o…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
God shows here again how slow, indeed, how dull the people were, whom no threats could persuade to return to a right mind. Therefore, when they dar…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore you shall say this word unto them Instead of praying for the people, the prophet has a doleful lamentation…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, he takes up his argument from the predictions of the prophets.
