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Jeremiah 20:14

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 afflictions and misery.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 20:14. _CURSED_ BE _THE DAY WHEREIN I WAS BORN_] If we take these words _literally_, and suppose them to be in their proper place, they are utterly inconsistent with that state of conf...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this the re...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 Pashur.-Jeremiah's Perplexity and Complaint _ 1. Pashur and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's great perplexity and complaint (Jeremiah 20:7) Jeremiah 20:1. A great scene now

  • 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 complains that Yahweh has beguiled him into the work...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LET NOT THE DAY, &C. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 20:7-18. The prophet bitterly complains to God of his lot The passage opens to us the depths of the prophet's soul, and we see him in intimate converse with God, and possessed now by the emo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    "The days of the year are not for the Hebrew mind mere marks of time, they are objective entities, each of which in its turn visits the world (cp. the twelve months in the fairy tale)." Pe....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See summary at commencement of section. Cp. Job 3:3-12. The latter passage is even more vehement than this and also bears traces of artificiality as compared with this natural and spontaneous outburst...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 thence. The sentiments are the same, and the expressions not great...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Curse Jeremiah 20:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! (15) Cursed is the man who brought the good news to my fa...

  • 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 and the preceding thanksgiving to be explained thus: to s...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 yet deeper than before is best explained by the supposi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָר֣וּר הַ יֹּ֔ום אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי בֹּ֑ו...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION Jeremiah 20:1 THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection of his message. "And Pashchur ben Immer the priest" (he was chief officer...

  • 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 imprisoned him. On the following day Jeremiah, being br...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (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 battle of the flesh and the Spirit, and into what...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XX. Cursed, &c. In these and the following words of the prophet, there is a certain figure of speech to express with more energy the greatness of the evils to which his birth had exposed him....

  • 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 not speaking these things of himself. And I the rathe...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It seems, as I have said, that the Prophet was inconsistent with himself; from joy and thanksgiving he immediately passed into curses and execrations; what could have been less appropriate? If we say...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a sample of the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 indeed that the prophet came into, from praising God, to c...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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._] What a sudden change of his note is here! Out of the sa...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Jer. 20:14, etc. How great an evidence is to be gathered from this, and other like passages of the Old Testament, of a future state of reward to the saints. Jeremiah was a man of affliction in this li...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 bitter complaints, he must observe that the order of time is...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-18 When grace has the victory, it is good to be ashamed of our folly, to admire the goodness of God, and be warned to guard our spirits another time. See how strong the temptation was, over which...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This sudden change of the prophet's style maketh both Mr. Calvin, and some other good interpreters, think that these words proceeded from Jeremiah rather as a repetition of a former passion, into whic...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed H779 (H8803) day H3117 born H3205 (H8795) day H3117 blessed H1288 (H8803) mother...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH (JEREMIAH 20:14). This passage closes off the section with a heart rending call by Jeremiah that the day of his birth be cursed, along with all who assisted in ens...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first persecution. His complaint to God and encouragement in God. CHARACTERS: God, Pashur, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: Those who declare the whole counsel of God may ex...

  • 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 terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet, ye...

  • 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 brief section Jeremiah is on the hill top and in the deepe...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 20:13 PRAISE THE LORD!... CURSED BE THE DAY! It is true that God merits praise for his protection. It is also true that Jeremiah lives a hard life. See...

  • The 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 public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 20:1 The continuation of the preceding narrative. PASHUR THE SON OF TRAINER. This man belonged to the sixteenth of the sacerdotal families or classes (1 Chronicles 24:14). Another...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Pashur (Jeremiah 20:1). And the name means "prosperity all around." Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah had prophesie...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 15:10; Job 3:3...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Cursed — This sudden change makes some think that these words proceeded from Jeremiah rather as a repetition of a former passion into which the abuses of his enemies had put him, than as the immediate...

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