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Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don`t take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
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Honest Prayer in Pain
Scholars describe Jeremiah's prayer as a raw, bitter cry from a man in deep anguish. Like the authors of some psalms, he holds nothing back, expressing his pain and feeling of abandonment. Commentators note the comfort in knowing we can appeal to a God who 'knows' everything, even when we are at our lowest point and our faith feels strained by suffering.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This is the prayer of a man in bitter grief, whose human nature cannot at present submit to the divine will. God’s long-suffering toward the wicked…
19th Century
Anglican
O Lord, you know ... —The prophet continues in the bitterness of his spirit the complaint that had begun in Jeremiah 15:1…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet again turns to God, to show that he was dealing with the deaf. This interruption in the Prophet’s discourse has much more force than if…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O Lord, you know All persons and things; he knew the prophet and his heart, and all that was in it; his innocence and int…
It is a matter of comfort that we have a God to whose knowledge of all things we may appeal. Jeremiah pleads with God for mercy and relief against …
13th Century
Catholic
Here the prophet's petition is presented, which has two parts: first, his own prayer, and second, the Lord's response, which begins with the words,…
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