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Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
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A Hopeless Human Situation
Commentators explain that Jeremiah intentionally describes a situation of total despair. Israel and Judah are oppressed, held fast, and their captors refuse to release them. This bleak human reality is presented to magnify the power of God, who, in the very next verse, is revealed as their 'strong Redeemer.' It teaches that God's greatest works often begin when human options have run out.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Were oppressed—are oppressed together: and all their captors have laid firm hold upon them: they have refused to let them go. The r…
19th Century
Anglican
Were oppressed. —Better, are oppressed, and so on through the verse. The English tense is misleading. The prophet, having…
16th Century
Protestant
Our Prophet returns to his former subject—that God, in destroying the Babylonian monarchy, would show regard for His chosen people. But the compari…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thus says the Lord of hosts. This is a preface to another prophecy, detached from the former, respecting the redemption o…
It is Israel's comfort in distress that, though they are weak, their Redeemer is strong. This may be applied to believers, who complain of the domi…
