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For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?

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The Isolation of Sin

Commentators explain that the series of rhetorical questions—who will pity, bemoan, or even ask about you?—is meant to show the utter desolation awaiting Jerusalem. Their sins were so great that they would be cut off from all human compassion and even basic courtesy, a deserved consequence of their rebellion against God.

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Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Jeremiah 15:5

19th Century

Bishop

To ask how you are doing? —This is a fair paraphrase of the original, but it lacks the Eastern character of the more literal t…

John Calvin

John Calvin

On Jeremiah 15:5–6

16th Century

Theologian

The Prophet shows here that the severe punishment he had spoken of could not be considered unjust, as those complaining men thought, who continuall…

John Gill

John Gill

On Jeremiah 15:5

17th Century

Pastor

For who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem ?
&c.] The inhabitants of it; their sins being so many, and so heinous…

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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Jeremiah 15:1–9

17th Century

Minister

The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The posing of this as a hypothetical situation, even if they were to stand …