Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 17:16

16 As for me, I have not hastned from being a pastor to follow thee , neither have I desired the woful day thou knowest , that which came out of my lips was right before thee .

That the words contain the Prophets appeal to God upon some reproaches cast upon him by this wicked people, as if he had thrust himself into the Prophetical Office is evident, and reasonably well agreed by Interpreters, but they are divided about the sense of the word [non-Latin text not transcribed]: which yet alwayes in Scripture signifies to make haste, or to urge, or press, the sense seemeth so be this. Lord! as I did not seek the office of a Prophet, so when thou wert pleased to call me to it, I did not decline to be a Pastor after thee.

Neither (saith he) have I desired to be a Prophet of these sad tidings, those woful miseries which thou hast made me thy messenger to foretel.

I have spoken nothing but what was right in thy sight being what thou commandest me to deliver as from thee, and so I know was right in thy sight.

Marginal references: Heb. after thee.