Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 10:19
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Jeremiah10:19
19 Wo is me for my hurt; my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Here the Prophet doth not so much express his own sorrow, though that be great, as personate the Sorrow and Complaint that the Land, i. e. the people of the Land, manifest, or at least ought to do; which because they do not, causeth no little grief in the Prophet himself, who cannot but be affected with their condition, which he calls not only a hurt, but a wound, and both of them very grievous.
Or rather, but I better considered it and said within my self, I were as good be silent, it is indeed a grief greivous in it self, and grievous that I must smother it, and not complain, but it is my duty to bear it patiently. There is in this expression a double necessary preparation to Repentance, viz. 1. An acknowledgment, that they had deservedly brought the Judgment upon themselves, and that therefore 2. They would patiently bear it, and it doth imply something of their stupidity, q. d. we could not have imagined the damage could have been so very great, but now we see how it is, we will patiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him, If this be not the meaning, then it is a further obstinate persisting in their Rebellion, q. d. seeing it must be so, truly it is very grievous, but I am bound now to bear it, and rub through it as well as I can: A further persisting in their pertinacy, but I incline most to the former sence.
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