Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 14:19

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion ? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us ? we looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of healing, and behold trouble .

The Prophet again returns to God, expostulating with him, and humbly imploring mercy for his people, which lets us know that he did not understand Gods words to him, v[illegible: 1 letter]se 11. as an absolute prohibition of him to pray for this people. Zion was a place whose gates God loved, and Iudah was his pleasant portion. Lord saith the Prophet, is it possible thou shouldst loath a place which thou so much lovedst, or cast off a people which thou hast so much owned?

He acknowledgeth God to be he that had smitten them, and their condition without him to be helpless and hopeless.

And that all their hopes and expectations were frustrated.

Marginal references: chap. 8.15.