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Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can`t save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don`t leave us.
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A God Who Seems Helpless?
The prophet uses shocking language, comparing God to a man “astonished” or a “mighty man that cannot save.” Scholars explain this doesn't describe God's true state, but expresses the people's desperate perspective. It’s as if God is stunned, surprised, or unwilling to act. This raw, emotional language shows that it is acceptable to express our deepest frustrations and confusion to God in prayer.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Astonied - The word may possibly mean “one who is taken by surprise and loses his presence of mind.”
19th Century
Anglican
As a man astonied. —The word translated this way is not found elsewhere, but cognate words in Arabic mean to be startled and perplexed.
Baptist
For our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why should you be as a…
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16th Century
Protestant
I have said that the former verse is confirmed by these words. For since the Prophet mentions God's own name to Him, we must consider the cause of …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied Astonished, and so surprised as not to know what to say or do; or "asleep", as the Septuagi…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet begins to pray to God for the people.
He makes his case with three arguments:
