Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 20:12

12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart , let me see thy vengeance on them : for unto thee have I opened my cause k.

The Prophet had chap. 17.10. spoken unto God under this notion; here he appealeth to him as such, and therefore must needs see as well the Prophets sincerity as his Enemies Malice.

For his Prayer against his Enemies, it is of the same nature with what we met with chap. 11.20. indeed this whole verse is the same with that David, Psal. 58.10. prophesieth that the righteous should rejoyce when they see the vengeance which God brings on his Enemies; but yet the Prophet seems in this Petition to have shewed himself a man (as the Apostle speaks of Eli[illegible: 1 letter]ah) subject to like Passions with other men, for although God sometimes in his Providence, causeth Vengeance to come upon his, and his Peoples Enemies in their sight, yet whether they may absolutely pray for it is, a question. See the notes on chap. 11.20.