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From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
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A Posture of Utter Despair
Commentators explain that the phrase "with thy hands upon thy head" was a well-known gesture of extreme shame, sorrow, and despair. Citing the example of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13:19, they show this wasn't just a figure of speech but a vivid image of someone being led away as a captive or grieving a terrible calamity. It paints a picture of the complete and public failure of Judah's plans.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From him - From it, from this Egypt, which though feminine as a land, yet as a people may be used as masculine (). Now that Nineveh is tremb…
19th Century
Anglican
From him. —Better, from it, that is, from Egypt as a people.
Your hands upon your head. —The outw…
Baptist
For the LORD has rejected your confidences, and you shall not prosper in them.
May God, in his mercy, save all of us from false con…
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16th Century
Protestant
He expresses more clearly what he had said about the shameful character of his own nation—that the Jews, who thought their safety would be secured …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, you shall go forth from him From the Egyptian, without any help, and with shame; or, "from this" F21…
The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…
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