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For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
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A Humanly Hopeless Case
Commentators agree that the verse's language of an "incurable" wound describes a situation that is hopeless from a human perspective. Scholars like John Gill note that the wound is beyond the skill of any person to fix. This diagnosis isn't meant to say God cannot heal it, but rather that Israel cannot heal itself. This establishes the people's total inability to solve their own crisis, making God's future intervention the only possible solution.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Incurable: Mortal, fatal.
19th Century
Anglican
Thy bruise is incurable ... —The mind of the prophet dwells on the seeming hopelessness, in words which sound like an ech…
Baptist
For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you …
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet's design should first be noted: he was contending with those impostors who offered the people hope of a return in a short time, while, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For thus says the Lord, your bruise [is] incurable By themselves or others, in all human appearance; there was no help fo…
When God is against a people, who will be for them? Who can be for them, so as to do them any kindness? Incurable griefs are owing to incurable lus…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet promises liberation from destruction—from the great affliction they had endured. Concerning this, there are two points.
