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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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Jeremiah
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19th Century
Anglican
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…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet shows here that the severe punishment he had spoken of could not be considered unjust, as those complaining men thought, who continuall…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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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Presbyterian
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 …
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet gives the reason for their rejection.
First, a question of wonder is presented, which excludes three things:
