Jeremiah 6:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble. The prophet personates the people's affections: q.d. At the very report of the. approach and fierceness of this people we are dismayed and discouraged, our hearts melt within us; all warlike courage is taken from us, 2 Samuel 4:1; or he modestly reckons himself among the rest. Anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail; a description of the exquisiteness of their sufferings, Jeremiah 13:21.

Jeremiah 6:24

24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.