Jeremiah 15:10; Job 3:3-16
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...
(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...
The Prophet's Troubles, Hopes, and Dark Despair. In passionate protest against his lot (possibly occasioned by the incident just related) Jeremiah...
let not the day, &c. Figure of speech Pleonasm.
It seems, as I have said, that the Prophet was inconsistent with himself; from joy and thanksgiving he immediately passed into curses and execr...
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...
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...
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...
1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply.
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...
CHAPTER XIII JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION Jeremiah 20:1-18 THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection of his message...
The story of the persecution which this action stirred up against him follows. Pashur heard the prophecy, and, smiting the prophet, arrested and impr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. B. C. 600....
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...
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...
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...
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...
An my familiars watched for my halting. Pathetic experiences In these verses we have two distinct aspects of human experience. Within this brie...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 20:1 The continuation of the preceding narrative. Pashur the son of Trainer. This man belonged to the sixteenth of th...
The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow
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...
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.