Genesis 21:5; Genesis 21:6; Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 1:14
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...
The Prophet's Troubles, Hopes, and Dark Despair. In passionate protest against his lot (possibly occasioned by the incident just related) Jeremiah...
man child . a son,. male. Compare Revelation 12:5 .
We said yesterday that the Prophet’s confused state of mind is described in this passage; for he would have no doubt himself confessed, that he...
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. A man child is born - Borun is to...
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.
Making him very glad. — The memory, or rather the thought of that day, the joy of father and another when their child was born ( John 16:21 ) was w...
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 man who brought tidings to my father ,.... The word signifies commonly good tidings, as the news of a child born, and especially a m...
Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. Ver. 15. Cursed be the man. ] L...
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...
The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. B. C. 600....
Parents are usually rejoiced when a son is born to them.
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
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.