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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:19-22

The Prophet's Grief for his country finds characteristic expression: My bowels! my bowels! Let me writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart moaneth within me! (Driver). His soul hears (mg. with LXX) the battle, and identifies itself in sympathy with his people, whose habitation (tents and tent- curtains; cf. Jeremiah 10:20) is destroyed, because they are so ignorant of Yahweh. This is the first example (after the call) of that revelation of the inner life which especially distinguishes this prophet, and forms his great contribution to spiritual religion.

Jeremiah 4:19. The bowels are the seat of strong emotion according to Hebrew psychology.

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See also Jeremiah 4:19-22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 4:19. _MY BOWELS_] From this to the _twenty-ninth_ verse the prophet describes the ruin of Jerusalem and the desolation of Judea by the Chaldeans in language and imagery scarcely paral...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The verse is best translated as a series of ejaculations, in which the people express their grief at the ravages committed by the enemy: “My bowels! My bowels!” I writhe in pain! The walls of my hea...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MY BOWELS. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis. Note the Figure of speech _Hypotyposis, verses:_ 19-31. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the emotions which produce an...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prophet is racked with grief at the noise of war and the thought of its horrors and all through the mad folly of his people. See summary at commencement of section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _My bowels_ considered as the seat of profound emotion. Cp. Jeremiah 31:20; Isaiah 16:11; Isaiah 63:15; Ca. Jeremiah 5:4 (R.V. mg.). I am

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MY BOWELS, &C.— _My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the centre,_ or, _in the midst, of my heart; my heart is tumultuous within me._ This terrific vision is full of the divinest enthusiasm. The calam...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. Description of Coming Judgment Jeremiah 4:19-31 In the last half of chapter four Jeremiah describes the coming judgment. He emphasizes that this judgment will be (1) terrifying (Jeremiah 4:19-22);...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מֵעַ֣י ׀ מֵעַ֨י׀ _אֹוחִ֜ילָה_† קִירֹ֥ות לִבִּ֛י הֹֽמֶה ־לִּ֥י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _My. God, (St. Jerome) the people, (Grotius) or rather Jeremias speaks._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I hope the Reader will pause over these verses, and remark the concern of the Prophet. And when he hath done this, let him ask himself what ought to be the concern of the Lord's prophets: I mean his m...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Some interpreters think that the Prophet is here affected with grief, because he saw that his own nation would soon perish; but I know not whether this is a right view. It is indeed true, that the pro...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MY BOWELS, MY BOWELS,.... These are either the words of the people, unto whose heart the calamity reached, as in the preceding verse; or rather of the prophet, who either, from a sympathizing heart, e...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Ver. 19. _My...

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

    _My bowels_, &c. Or, as Dr. Waterland renders it, _My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the centre, or in the midst, of my heart; my heart is tumultuous within me!_ It is an exclamation of the prophet...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    My bowels, my bowels! the whole inner part of the man quaking with terror. I AM PAINED AT MY VERY HEART! or, I feel the pain of a severe cramp the chambers of my heart! MY HEART MAKETH A NOISE IN ME,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AT MY VERY HEART: _ Heb._ the walls of my heart [symbol in wrong place]...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 4:19 soul H4578 soul H4578 pained H2342 (H8799) (H8675) H3176 (H8686) very H7023 heart...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 3:6; Daniel 7:15; Daniel 7:28; Daniel 8:27; Galatians 4:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My bowels — Here begins the complaint of the prophet. My heart — Is disturbed within me. Because — I have heard in the spirit of prophecy; it is as certain, as if I now heard the trumpet sounding....

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