Jeremiah 20:18

Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. Compare Job 3.

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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...
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

He then adds, My mother might have been my grave; (18) that is, “This light and life I value not; why then did I not die in my mother’s wom...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? Wherefore came I forth - It would have b...
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

Wherefore came I forth...? — Like the preceding verse, this is in its tone, almost in its words, an echo of Job 3:11-12 ; Job 3:20 .
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS OH! Pashur! what a vast difference was there even in the moment of thy seeming triumphs, between the suffering Prophet, and the insultin...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow ,.... "Labour" in performing his work and office as a prophet; and "sorrow" in suffe...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? Ver. 18. Wherefore came I forth, &amp...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Cursed be the man , &c. As in the forms of rejoicing upon a birth-day they blessed every person and thing concerned in the birth, and said, Ble...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. B. C. 600....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These words let us know the prophet's temptation to these extravagant eruptions of passion; it was the reproach, and shame, and affliction which he e...
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

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, to experience nothing but misery, that my days should be consumed with shame? This...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 4:9-13 ; 1 Peter 4:14-16 ; 2 Timothy 1:12 ; Acts 5:41 ; Genesis 3:16-19 ; Hebrews 10:36 ; Hebrews 11:36 ; Hebrews 12:2 ; Hebre...

¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 20:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

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

Jeremiah 20:18