For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Ver. 8. For since I spake, I cried out,] i.e., Ever since I took upon me the office of a prophet, I executed it vigorously, I cried with full mouth. Jeremiah 4:5 Isa 58:1
I cried violence and spoil,] sc., Will surely befall you by the Chaldees. Or, I cried out of my misusages.
Because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision daily.] This was all the recompense I reaped of my goodwill to this perverse people, and of my pains taken among them. Few sins are more dangerous than those of casting reproaches upon God's Word, as here; of snuffing at it; Mal 1:13 of enviously swelling at it; Act 13:45 of chatting at it; Rom 9:19-20 of stumbling at it; 1Pe 2:8 of gathering odious consequences from it. Rom 3:8