He describes the joy with which he first received the Divine commission.

were found Cp. Ezekiel 3:1, where "findest" (omitted, however, in the best MSS. of LXX) stands in the same connexion.

I did eat them The expression conveys two notions: (i) joyful acceptance, (ii) close union. It is however a strange one. LXX, slightly changing MT., read (for "I have suffered … joy"), I have borne reproach from them that despise thy words. Consume them, and thy word shall be to me a joy, etc. For "consume them" cp. Psalms 59:13.

am called See on Jeremiah 7:10.

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