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Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
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A Just Diagnosis
Commentators explain that God's question, "Why do you cry out over your wound?" is not dismissive but diagnostic. He is directly linking Israel's "incurable" pain to the "multitude" of their sins. Scholars like John Calvin note that this verse serves as a justification for God's severe discipline, reminding the people that their suffering is the just and direct consequence of their persistent rebellion, not an arbitrary act of cruelty.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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Why do you cry because of your breaking?Because your pain is grievous?Because of the multitude of your iniquity,
19th Century
Anglican
Why criest thou ...? —The personification of the previous verse is continued. The prophet looks on Judah—as in Lamentatio…
Baptist
Because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. Therefore
Now I read this morning, and I could not he…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet now anticipates an objection, so that the Jews would not argue with God; for it clearly appears that they always complained of God’s ex…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Why do you cry for your affliction ? &c.] Or complain of the hardness, and heaviness, and continuance of it, when there w…
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.
