Commentary
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 4:19
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19. The prophet suddenly assumes the language of the Jewish state personified, lamenting its affliction (Jr 10:19, 20; 9:1, 10; Is 15:5; compare Lu 19:41).
at my very heart--Hebrew, "at the walls of my heart"; the muscles round the heart. There is a climax, the "bowels," the pericardium, the "heart" itself.
maketh ... noise--moaneth [Henderson].
alarm--the battle shout.
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