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No Place to Hide
Commentators unanimously highlight the inescapable nature of God's judgment in this verse. Jeremiah paints a grim picture where there is no safe place to run. Fleeing to the fields meant death by the enemy's sword, while staying in the city meant a slow death from famine. This illustrates the totality of the disaster facing the unrepentant nation.
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Jeremiah
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Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 14:18
19th Century
Bishop
Those who are sick with famine. — Literally, with an even more terrible force, as summing all individual sufferings in one collect…
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…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 14:18
16th Century
Theologian
He confirms the same thing in other words, not because what he had said was obscure, but because he knew that he was speaking to the deaf, or that …
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 14:18
17th Century
Pastor
If I go forth into the field
Without the city, where was the camp of the enemy besieging it then behold …
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…