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No Advocate, No Doctor
Commentators explain that this verse paints a picture of absolute helplessness using two powerful images: a defendant in court with no lawyer to plead their case, and a severely wounded person with no doctor or medicine for healing. This imagery is meant to convey Israel's complete and total desolation, abandoned by all human help.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 30:13
18th Century
Theologian
That you may be bound up - Others put a stop after “cause,” and translate, For binding your wound, you have no healing plaster.
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 30:13
19th Century
Bishop
There is none to plead thy cause... — These words bring before us two images of extreme misery: the criminal who, standin…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 30:13–14
19th Century
Preacher
There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines. All your lovers have forgotten you:
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 30:13
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet speaks first plainly, then he illustrates the simple truth with a metaphor. He says that there was no one to undertake the cause
John Gill
On Jeremiah 30:13
17th Century
Pastor
[There is] none to plead your cause, that you may be bound
up
None that will give the…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 30:12–17
17th Century
Minister
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…