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God's Escalating Sorrow
Commentators explain that God's weeping for Sibmah is expressed as being even greater than, or in addition to, the weeping for the already-destroyed city of Jazer. This shows that God's judgment is not a cold, detached act, but one accompanied by profound and escalating sorrow over the loss of what was once prosperous.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 48:32
18th Century
Theologian
Or, “More than the weeping of Jazer” over its ruined vineyards “will I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah.” Compare the marginal refe…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 48:32
19th Century
Bishop
O vine of Sibmah. —Here again we have an echo of Isaiah 16:9. Sibmah appears in Joshua 13:19 as assigned to the Reubenite…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 48:32
16th Century
Theologian
Here the Prophet shows more clearly what he had said generally before, that Sibmah would weep for her vines, after having wept for Jazer. These wer…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 48:32
17th Century
Pastor
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of
Jazer
Sibmah was a city in …