Jeremiah 20:14

let not the day, &c. Figure of speech Pleonasm.

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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 neverthele...
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...
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...
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 execr...
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...
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 thenc...
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 an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply.
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 ye...
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...
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 impr...
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 no...
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 indee...
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. ] Wha...
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 bitte...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. B. C. 600....
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 ra...
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...
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...
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 te...
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 brie...
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 th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed, since life had not brought him blessings, but only afflic...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 15:10 ; Job 3:3-16
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 abu...

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 20:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 20:14