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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...
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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...
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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 follo...
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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...
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LET NOT THE DAY, &C. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._...
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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...
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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...
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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 f...
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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...
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1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....
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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...
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אָר֣וּר הַ יֹּ֔ום אֲשֶׁ֥ר
יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי בֹּ֑ו יֹ֛ום אֲשֶׁר
־יְלָדַ֥תְנִי אִמִּ֖י אַל ־יְהִ֥י
בָרֽוּךְ׃...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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 hi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow...
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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
t...
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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...
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Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed H779 (H8803) day H3117 born H3205 (H8795) day
H3117 blessed H1288 (H8803) mother H517 bore H3205 (H8804)
Jeremiah 15:10; Job 3:3-16...
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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 en...
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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 e...
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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...
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_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...
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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 Jeremiah 15:10 and Job...
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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...
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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...
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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 prophesi...
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Jeremiah 15:10; Job 3:3...
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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...