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God is the Author of Judgment
Commentators stress that God is the active agent in this passage. He declares, "I have brought... a destroyer." This wasn't a random military defeat or bad luck. Scholars like John Calvin explain that God is asserting His sovereignty over history, using the Babylonian army as His instrument to enact a just, though devastating, judgment upon an unrepentant Judah.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 15:8
18th Century
Theologian
This translates as: I have brought upon them, even upon the mother of the young man, a spoiler, and so on. The word translated as “young m…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 15:8
19th Century
Bishop
I have brought ... —Better, I have brought upon them, even upon the mother of the young warrior (that is, upon t…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 15:8
16th Century
Theologian
He says first, Multiplied have been his widows; because the men had been almost all killed in battle. If the Prophet is the speaker, the p…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 15:8
17th Century
Pastor
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas , &c.] Their husbands being slain; not in the times of Ahaz, when a hun…
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 …