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A Gut-Wrenching Grief
Commentators highlight the intensely physical language Jeremiah uses: "my bowels" and "the walls of my heart." Scholars like Ellicott explain that for the Hebrews, the bowels were the seat of the deepest emotions. This isn't a distant sadness but a visceral, gut-wrenching agony, compared to the pains of childbirth, meant to convey the profound horror of the coming judgment.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 4:19
18th Century
Theologian
The verse is best translated as a series of exclamations, in which the people express their grief at the ravages committed by the enemy:
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 4:19
19th Century
Bishop
My bowels, my bowels! —As with Jeremiah 4:13, the words may be Jeremiah’s own cry of anguish, or that of the despairing p…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 4:19–21
19th Century
Preacher
The dreadful blast of war, the blood-red flag of murder, flying through the land, while the Chaldeans slaughtered right and left, young and old—we …
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 4:19
16th Century
Theologian
Some interpreters think that the Prophet is here affected by grief because he saw that his own nation would soon perish; but I do not know whether …
John Gill
On Jeremiah 4:19
17th Century
Pastor
My bowels, my bowels
These are either the words of the people, to whose heart the calamity reached, as in the preceding verse;…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 4:19–31
17th Century
Minister
The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion.
Compared with what it was,…