“ When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. ”
Rather, “O my comfort in sorrow: my heart faints for me.” The word translated “comfort” is by some supposed to be corrupt. With these mournful ejaculations a new strophe begins, ending with Jeremi...
[When] I would (n) comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me. (n) Read ( Jeremiah 4:19 ).
Jeremiah 8:18 to Jeremiah 9:1 . Jeremiah's Sorrow over Judah's Suffering. The prophet, in sorrowful sympathy with his people, hears in anticipation the cry of the exiles and Yahweh's answer. The...
I: i.e. the prophet again.
Interpreters explain differently the word מבלגיתי, mebelgiti. Some take מ, mem, in the sense of ב, beth; but others, with whom I agree, regard it as a servile, deriving the word fro...
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
When I would comfort myself— Comfort, or mirth flies from me: sorrow hangs over me, my heart is faint. Houb.
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me - ( Isaiah 22:4 ). The lamentation of the prophet for...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
When I would comfort myself... — The word translated comfort is not found elsewhere, and has been very differently understood. Taking the words as spoken after a pause, they come as a cry of sorr...
Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
False Promises of Peace Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the peop...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon...
When I would comfort myself against terror ,.... Either naturally, by eating and drinking, the necessary and lawful means of refreshment; or spiritually, by reading the word of God, and looking over...
Jeremiah 8:18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me. Ver. 18. When I would comfort myself, &c. ] Or, as some render it, O my comfort against sorrow, i.e.,...
When I would comfort myself , &c. “When I would apply comfort to myself, my heart misgives me: I find great reason for my fears, and none for my hopes.” Blaney translates the verse, sorrow is u...
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. B. C. 606....
The language of the people, being long shut up in their cities, and finding no relief, at last faint, Lamentations 4:17 . But more probably the prophet now seems to speak his own resentments, how...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4 , which continues to chap....
Jeremiah 8:1-2 . At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and t...
Jeremiah 8:1 . At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones (as in the Chaldaic) of the false prophets. They shall spread them...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 8:1-24 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. Jeremiah 8:1 They shall bring out the bones . Not only shall many of the dead...
Further Description of the Impending Punishment
Daniel 10:16 ; Daniel 10:17 ; Habakkuk 3:16 ; Isaiah 22:4 ; Jeremiah 10:19-22 ; Jeremiah 6:24 ; Job 7:13 ; Job 7:14 ; Lamentations 1:16 ; Lamentations 1:17
Sorrow — The prophet now seems to speak, how greatly the calamity of this people affected him.