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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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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 14:17
18th Century
Theologian
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 …
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 14:17
19th Century
Bishop
You shall say this word. —Though not in form a prediction, no words could express more emphatically the terrible nature o…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 14:17–18
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 14:17
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 14:17
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore you shall say this word unto them
Instead of praying for the people, the prophet has a doleful lamentation…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 14:17–22
17th Century
Minister
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…