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A Divine Play on Words
Multiple commentators highlight a powerful play on words in the original Hebrew. The people mockingly called God's prophecy a 'burden' (massa). In response, God uses a related verb, declaring He will 'take them up as a burden' and cast them away. While some translations say 'forget,' the core idea is that God's judgment directly and poetically fits their specific sin of disrespecting His word.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 23:39
18th Century
Theologian
Translate, Therefore, behold, I will even take you up (or will burden you), and I will cast you, and the city which I gave you and your fathers…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 23:39
19th Century
Bishop
I, even I, will utterly forget you ... —A very slight alteration in a single letter of the Hebrew verb gives a rendering …
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 23:38–39
16th Century
Theologian
Here the Prophet confirms what he had said, for God might have seemed to be too indignant, having been so grievously offended at one short expressi…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 23:39
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you
That is, so behave towards them, as though they were entirely …
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 23:33–40
17th Century
Minister
Those are indeed miserable who are forsaken and forgotten by God; and people's jesting at God's judgments will not thwart them. God had taken Israe…