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A Portrait of Total Collapse
Commentators explain that this verse uses powerful imagery to paint a picture of complete societal collapse. The "gates," normally bustling centers of commerce and justice, are desolate. The people are described as "black to the ground," signifying both mourning clothes and the dark, gaunt faces of the famished, who sit on the ground in utter despair.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 14:2
18th Century
Theologian
They are black unto the ground - The people assembled at the gates, the usual places of gathering, are in deep mourning and sit hum…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 14:2
19th Century
Bishop
The gates thereof languish. —The “gates” of the cities, as the chief places of assembly (much like the agora of …
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 14:2–6
19th Century
Preacher
The distress in the land was so great that the city gates, where, in more prosperous times, business transactions took place, and meetings of the p…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 14:2–3
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet suggests in these words that the scarcity would be so great as to appear to be a manifest and remarkable evidence of God’s vengeance. F…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 14:2
17th Century
Pastor
Judah mourneth. That is, the inhabitants of Judah; those of the house of Judah, as the Targum; these mourned because of t…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 14:1–9
17th Century
Minister
The people were in tears. But it was the cry of their trouble and their sin, rather than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water…