Jeremiah 8:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. ”

Jeremiah 8:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the hurt ... hurt - literally, “Because of the breaking ... broken.” These are the words of the prophet, whose heart is crushed by the cry of his countrymen. I am black - Or, I go mournin...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I (q) hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. (q) The prophet speaks this.
Jeremiah 8:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

As the hardness of the people was so great, that the threatenings we have observed did not touch them, the Prophet now ascribes to himself what he had before attributed to them. We then s...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1043 THE REMEDY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SEASONS OF GRACE Jeremiah 8:20-22 . The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my pe...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Jeremiah 8:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For the hurt, &c.— Jeremiah here deplores the misfortunes of Jerusalem, and continues to do so in the subsequent chapter. Houbigant renders this verse, I am wounded with the wound of the daugh...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. I am black - sad in visage with grief ( Joel 2:6 , "All faces shall gather blackness").
Jeremiah 8:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
Jeremiah 8:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For the hurt... — Now the prophet again speaks in his own person. He is crushed in that crushing of his people. His face is darkened, as one that mourns. (Comp. Psalms 38:6 ; Joshua 5:11 .)...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Jeremiah 8:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Jeremiah 8:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt ,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy...
Jeremiah 8:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Ver. 21. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, I am black. ] Or, I go in black,...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt , &c. These are the words of the prophet, lamenting the miserable condition of his country. The Hebrew is more literally rendered, For the br...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. B. C. 606....
Jeremiah 8:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The prophet here shows how deeply he is affected with the people's misery, he deeply sympathized with them. The hurt; it signifies breach , I am broken in my spirit; and so it answers to the breac...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 8:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 8:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Jeremiah 8:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Jeremiah 8:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Further Description of the Impending Punishment
Jeremiah 8:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 14:17 ; Jeremiah 17:16 ; Jeremiah 4:19 ; Jeremiah 9:1 ; Joel 2:6 ; Luke 19:41 ; Nahum 2:10 ; Nehemiah 2:3 ; Psalms 137:3-6 ; Romans 9:1-3 ; Song of Solomon 1:5 ; Song of Solomon...
Jeremiah 8:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Am I hurt — The prophet here shews how deeply he is affected with the peoples misery. Black — I am as those that are clad in deep mourning.

Jeremiah 8:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Jeremiah 8:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 8:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 8:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 8:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 8:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 8:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 8:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 8:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 8:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes