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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Jeremiah 30:13

There is none to plead thy cause, intercession could no longer be expected by them, that thou mayest be bound up, the wounds of their body politic being bandaged; thou hast no healing medicines, no remedies of bandages and plasters. Cf. Jeremiah 8:22.

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See also Jeremiah 30:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 30:13. THERE IS _NONE TO PLEAD THY CAUSE_] All thy friends and allies have forsaken thee....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THAT THOU MAYEST BE BOUND UP - Others put a stop after “cause,” and translate, For binding thy wound, healing plaster thou hast none....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE NATION (30-31) CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The time of Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:1) _ 2. Zion's desperate condition and the promise of deliverance (Jeremiah 30:12) 3. Restoration...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Description of the people's terror (Jeremiah 30:5 _mg._) at the Day of Yahweh (Amos 5:18); but this Day shall bring deliverance from the (heathen) yoke (Jeremiah 30:8), and Israel shall have (religiou...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THAT THOU MAYEST, &C.. for binding thee up....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note to section. For a parallel in the character of the description in Jeremiah 30:5, Dr. compares Isaiah 13:6-15 (the overthrow of Babylon) followed by Isaiah 14:1 f. (the deliverance of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These _vv_. are either Jeremiah's own (so Du.) or a close imitation of his style....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In the same _v_. the people of God appears both as defendant in a suit at law, and as one suffering from a wound which cannot be staunched. _There is none to plead thy cause_ Thine enemies at present...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Plight of Apostate Israel Jeremiah 30:12-17 TRANSLATION (12) For thus says the LORD: Your wound is incurable, your hurt is fatal. (13) There is no one to plead your case that you may be bound...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. THERE IS NONE TO PLEAD THY CAUSE - a new image from a court of justice. THAT THOU MAYEST BE BOUND...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    30:13 medicines. (d-17) Or 'there are no medicines [nor] healing for thee.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-9. When the gloom is deepest, deliverance shall come....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THY CAUSE, THAT THOU.. MEDICINES] rather, join 'that thou,' etc., with what follows. 'For the closing up of thy wound there is no healing, no plaister.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THERE IS NONE TO PLEAD THY CAUSE... — The words bring before us two images of extremest misery — the criminal who, standing before the dread judgment-seat, has no advocate, the plague-stricken suffere...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֵֽין ־דָּ֥ן דִּינֵ֖ךְ לְ מָזֹ֑ור רְפֻאֹ֥ות ת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Following this action of the prophet a word of Jehovah came to him which he was especially commanded to write in a book. In a remarkable way it first set forth two things side by side. The first and f...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Up. There is none to judge thy cause, or to be thy physician. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I stay not to detain the Reader with any observations upon this blessed passage, though in itself it would invite some of the most delightful. But the gracious things here spoken of, both in a way of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet speaks first without a figure, then he illustrates the simple truth by a metaphor. He says that there was _no one to undertake the cause _of the people; as though he had said, that they we...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE DAY OF JACOB'S TROUBLE: PROMISED DELIVERANCE AND SURE JUDGMENT Some details of the circumstances that accompany its exercise deserve our attention, as well as the character which God displays in i...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [THERE IS] NONE TO PLEAD THY CAUSE, THAT THOU MAYEST BE BOUND UP,.... None that will give themselves the trouble to look into their wound to judge of it; to consult, and reason, and debate about the n...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Jeremiah 30:13 [There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. Ver. 13. _There is none to plead thy cause._] Thou art friendless. _ That thou mayest...

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

    _Thy bruise is incurable_ In all human appearance. The state that the Jews should be in would be so miserable that it would be incurable from any hand except that of God. _There is none to plead thy c...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THAT THOU MAYEST BE BOUND UP: _ Heb._ for binding up, or pressing...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-17 When God is against a people, who will be for them? Who can be for them, so as to do them any kindness? Incurable griefs are owing to incurable lusts. Yet, though the captives suffered justly,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Concerning the general design of the prophet in these words, all interpreters seem agreed that the prophet's scope is to bring their uneasy thoughts to a rest, and make them rest satisfied with the pr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 30:13 plead H1777 (H8802) cause H1779 up H4205 healing H8585 medicines H7499 none -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PART 1). ANGUISH AND RESTORATION (JEREMIAH 30:1 TO JEREMIAH 31:40). Part 1 is divided up into two Sub-parts (A and B) by the introductory words, ‘thus says YHWH (of hosts), the God of Israel' (Jeremia...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE REASON WHY ISRAEL/JUDAH NEEDED TO BE DELIVERED WAS BECAUSE OF THEIR SUFFERINGS, WHICH WERE GRIEVOUS BECAUSE THEY WERE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 30:12). Having made His glorious promi...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5). (CONTINUED). As we have seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 di

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 30:12. _For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous._ See here is the bass again. We have got down into the sorrowful notes all to make us sick of self and re...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 30:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book._ We believe in ver...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first writing. Summary of Israel in the coming great tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Israel, after many years of wandering among all nations, is to be finall...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 30:6. _Ask ye now whether a man doth travail with child._ The anguish of a people once lords in Judea, now servants in Babylon, was great. But they were happier weeping there than worshipping...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 30:1 Restoration for Judah and Israel. The book now turns to positive themes. At last Jeremiah may “build and plant” (Jeremiah 1:10). He cl

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Though without a date, yet the probability is that it was “_written in a book_” (see Jeremiah 30:2) in the tenth year of Zedekiah; and that th...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This and the three next chapters form a kind of book in themselves, which contrasts admirably with Jermiah 27-29. In the latter Jeremiah aimed at casting down the delusive hope that the tim...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter 30, we enter into the future in these next four Chapter s. And this is now writing of the Great Tribulation period which is yet future. This is writing about this period of...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 2:1; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 Timothy 2:6; Deuteronomy 3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    No medicine — The prophet's design was to convince them, that there was no present remedy, but patience, though their false prophets might promise a cure....

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