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Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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A Prophet's Holy Desperation
Commentators explain that Jeremiah's wish to flee to a desolate shelter in the wilderness reveals his profound anguish. Overwhelmed by the people's sin and the coming judgment, he desires solitude to grieve. John Calvin notes this isn't just personal despair, but a rhetorical cry intended to shock the people into realizing the extreme detestability of their actions.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
19th Century
Anglican
Oh, that I had ...! —Literally, as before, Who will give ... ?
A lodging place o…
Baptist
He mourned because of the doom that awaited them; but he equally mourned because of the sin that would bring that doom upon them. He wished that he…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet entertains another wish: He had before wished that his head were waters, that he might shed tears, and he had wished his eyes to b…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men Such as travellers take up with in a desert, when they a…
Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…
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13th Century
Catholic
First, he speaks of his own compassion regarding …
