Jeremiah 20:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. ”

Jeremiah 20:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the rest of the chapter we have an outbreak of deep emotion, of which the first part ends in a cry of hope Jeremiah 20:13 , followed nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this t...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(h) Cursed [be] the day in which I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. (h) How the children of God are overcome in this battle of the flesh and the Spirit, and into what...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet's Troubles, Hopes, and Dark Despair. In passionate protest against his lot (possibly occasioned by the incident just related) Jeremiah complains that Yahweh has beguiled him into the wo...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

let not the day, &c. Figure of speech Pleonasm.
Jeremiah 20:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It seems, as I have said, that the Prophet was inconsistent with himself; from joy and thanksgiving he immediately passed into curses and execrations; what could have been less appropriate? If...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the day wherein I was born - If we take these words literally, and suppose them to be in their...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Cursed be the day, &c.— See the note on Jeremiah 20:7 . These verses are so like those in Job 3:3 that they seem to have been borrowed thence. The sentiments are the same, and the expression...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding thanksgiving to be explained thus:...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply.
Jeremiah 20:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Cursed be the day wherein I was born... — The apparent strangeness of this relapse from the confidence of the two previous verses into a despair yet deeper than before is best explained by the supp...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XIII JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION Jeremiah 20:1-18 THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection of his message. "And Pashchur ben Immer the priest" (he was chie...
Jeremiah 20:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The story of the persecution which this action stirred up against him follows. Pashur heard the prophecy, and, smiting the prophet, arrested and imprisoned him. On the following day Jeremiah, being b...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

So great a contrast there is between the last verse of the preceding paragraph and the beginning of this, that I cannot but suppose the Prophet is not speaking these things of himself. And I the rath...
Jeremiah 20:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born ,.... If this was said immediately upon the foregoing, it was a most strange and sudden change of frame indeed that the prophet came into, from praising God, t...
Jeremiah 20:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Ver. 14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born. ] What a sudden change of his note is here! Out of the...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Cursed be the day , &c. If the reader be surprised at this sudden change of the prophet's discourse, from joyful thanks for deliverance to bitter complaints, he must observe that the order of ti...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. B. C. 600. 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born:...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This sudden change of the prophet's style maketh both Mr. Calvin, and some other good interpreters, think that these words proceeded from Jeremiah rather as a repetition of a former passion, into whi...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah Curses The Day Of His Birth ( Jeremiah 20:14-18 ). This passage closes off the section with a heart rending call by Jeremiah that the day of his birth be cursed, along with all who assist...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter . With chap. 20 the first section of this book closes. Probably this was Jeremiah’s last public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed...
Jeremiah 20:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 20:3 . The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, which signifies security or increase; but Magormissabib, a terror on every side, or terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet,...
Jeremiah 20:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

An my familiars watched for my halting. Pathetic experiences In these verses we have two distinct aspects of human experience. Within this brief section Jeremiah is on the hill top and in the d...
Jeremiah 20:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 20:1 The continuation of the preceding narrative. Pashur the son of Trainer. This man belonged to the sixteenth of the sacerdotal families or classes ( 1 Chronicles 24...
Jeremiah 20:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow
Jeremiah 20:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 15:10 ; Job 3:3-16
Jeremiah 20:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Cursed — This sudden change makes some think that these words proceeded from Jeremiah rather as a repetition of a former passion into which the abuses of his enemies had put him, than as the immedi...

Jeremiah 20:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 20:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 20:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 20:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 20:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 20:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 20:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 20:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 20:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 20:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 20:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 20:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 20:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 20:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes