Jeremiah 10:19

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Gather your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.'" ¹⁸ For thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress to them, so that they may feel it." ¹⁹ Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound is incurable. But I said, "Surely this is my sickness, and I must bear it." ²⁰ My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out from me, and they are not. There is no one who pitches my tent again, or one who puts up my tent curtains. ²¹ For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. Therefore they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered. ²² Listen, news: Look, it is coming, a great roar from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. ²³ I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way, nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step. ²⁴ Chastise me, O Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me. ²⁵ Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.

Bible Verse Review
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Woe: Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:31, Jeremiah 8:21, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 17:13, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:12-22, Lamentations 2:11-22, Lamentations 3:48

Truly: Psalms 39:9, Psalms 77:10, Isaiah 8:17, Lamentations 3:18-21, Lamentations 3:39, Lamentations 3:40, Micah 7:9

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:13 - Woe Jeremiah 4:20 - suddenly Jeremiah 8:18 - my

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:8
And Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior.

Genesis 10:10
Now, the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:15
Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

Genesis 10:17
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 10:18
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

Genesis 10:21
And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, children were also born.

Genesis 10:24
And Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Woe is me for my hurt!.... Or "breach" a; which was made upon the people of the Jews, when besieged, taken, and carried captive; with whom the prophet heartily sympathized, and considered their calamities and distresses as his own; for these are the words of the prophet, lamenting the sad estate of his people.

My wound is grievous; causes grief, is very painful, and hard to be endured:

but I said; within himself, after he had thoroughly considered the matter:

this is a grief; an affliction, a trial, and exercise:

and I must bear it; patiently and quietly, since it is of God, and is justly brought upon the people for their sins.

a על שברי "propter confractionem meam", Cocceius Schmidt,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy.

Jeremiah 10:19

Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable.

A grief - Or, “my grief.”

Jeremiah 10:20

tabernacle - i. e., “tent.” Jerusalem laments that her tent is plundered and her children carried into exile, and so “are not,” are dead Matthew 2:18, either absolutely, or dead to her in the remote land of their captivity. They can aid the widowed mother no longer in pitching her tent, or in hanging up the curtains round about it.

Jeremiah 10:21

Therefore they shall not prosper - Rather, “therefore they have not governed wisely.” “The pastors,” i. e., the kings and rulers Jeremiah 2:8, having sunk to the condition of barbarous and untutored men, could not govern wisely.

Jeremiah 10:22

The “great commotion” is the confused noise of the army on its march (see Jeremiah 8:16).

Dragons - i. e., jackals; see the marginal reference.

Jeremiah 10:23

At the rumour of the enemy’s approach Jeremiah utters in the name of the nation a supplication appropriate to men overtaken by the divine justice.

Jeremiah 10:24

With judgment - In Jeremiah 30:11; Jeremiah 46:28, the word “judgment” (with a different preposition) is rendered “in measure.” The contrast therefore is between punishment inflicted in anger, and that inflicted as a duty of justice, of which the object is the criminal’s reformation. Jeremiah prays that God would punish Jacob so far only as would bring him to true repentance, but that he would pour forth his anger upon the pagan, as upon that which opposes itself to God Jeremiah 10:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:19. This is a grief, and I must bear it. — Oppressive as it is, I have deserved it, and worse; but even in this judgment God remembers mercy.