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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Jeremiah 20:9-13

What a blessed testimony, is it to the truth of the holy scriptures, that their effects on the souls of God's people, are in all ages the same. What Jeremiah said, all more or less find, that the word of the Lord is as a fire and as an hammer. Reader! can you bear like testimony to its power in your heart? Luke 24:32. And what an uniform correspondence is there in all ages of the Church, among the Lord's people, how the enemy stirreth up the minds of men, to wait for their halting. An infirmity of the Lord's people, becomes subject of delight to carnal minds. Aha! Aha! so would we have it. This is the language of all the haters of Christ's people. Psalms 35:20. The glory given to the Lord, in the close of this paragraph, is beautiful: and no less so the hymn of praise with which it ends.

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See also Jeremiah 20:9-13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 20:9. _I WILT NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM_] I will renounce the prophetic office, and return to my house. _AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES_] He felt stings of conscience for the has...

  • 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

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  • 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

    WAS. became....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These _vv_. shew us that the prophets did not speak of their own will. It was an influence which they could not resist that urged them forward, in spite of the certain ills that should follow to thems...

  • 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

    _make mention_ rather, _think thereon_, i.e. on "the word." _I am weary with forbearing_ rather, as in Jeremiah 6:11, "weary with holding in....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1059 A SOUL UNDER DISCOURAGEMENT Jeremiah 20:9. _Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM— _But when I say, I will not make mention of it—then it becomes in my heart,_ &c. So it is said of St. Paul, that _his spirit was stirred in him;_ and again...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not sta...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    20:9 in, (b-39) Or 'with bearing [it].'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The prophet cannot refrain from delivering his message, though it entailed derision and mockery....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN I SAID... — The sense of a hopeless work, destined to fail, weighed on the prophet’s soul, and he would fain have withdrawn from it; but _it_ (the words in italics, though they do not spoil the s...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אָמַרְתִּ֣י לֹֽא ־אֶזְכְּרֶ֗נּוּ וְ לֹֽא ־

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _And there, or "for," &c. I was grieved continually. (Sanctius) --- I could not however refrain from speaking, Acts xvii. 16., and 1 Corinthians ix. 16., and Job xxxii. 18._...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Now this passage is especially worthy of being observed; for not only teachers are influenced by this feeling, but all the godly without exception. For when we see that men are, as it were, made worse...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS NAME,.... Not that he publicly said this before his enemies, or privately to his friends, but he said it in his heart; he thought...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [s...

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

    _For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil_ Or, rather, as Houbigant renders it, _For since I spake, and cried against iniquity, and denounced desolation, the word of the Lord_, &c. B...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then I said, or, "If I said," I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS NAME, in trying to escape the unpleasant experiences which attached to his fearless testifying, BUT HIS WORD WAS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-13 The prophet complains of the insult and injury he experienced. But ver. Jeremiah 20:7 may be read, Thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou wast stronger than I; and didst overpower me...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS NAME: this daily scorn and reproach which the prophet saw himself exposed unto, for preaching against the sin and wickedness of t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 20:9 said H559 (H8804) mention H2142 (H8799) speak H1696 (H8762) name H8034 heart H3820 burning...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH IS SO DISTRAUGHT THAT HE BERATES YHWH AND POINTS OUT HOW TOUGH HE IS FINDING THINGS, AND YET HE ADMITS THAT HE HAS TO SPEAK OUT WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT BECAUSE YHWH'S WORD IS LIKE A BURNIN...

  • 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

    _Then I said, I will not make mention of Him nor speak any more in His name._ JEREMIAH DISCOURAGED I. Jeremiah’s momentary rashness. Oh! it was a rash speech--like the rashness of Job, like the petul...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 20:9 BURNING FIRE... IN MY BONES. When Jeremiah decides not to preach, he apparently feels intense (and possibly bodily) pain, as if the words are trying to burst forth. He c...

  • 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

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I said — He did not speak this openly, but in his heart. But — He found in his heart a constraint to go on....

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