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With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Or, “More than the weeping of Jazer” over its ruined vineyards “will I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah.” Compare the marginal refe…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer Sibmah was a city in …
