Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 8:18
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Jeremiah8:18
18 When I would comfort my self against sorrow: my heart is faint in me.
The language of the people being long shut up in their Cities and finding no r[illegible: 1 letter]lief, at last faint, Lam. 4.17. But more probably the Prophet now seems to speak his own resentments how greatly the calamity of his people did affect him, the like Isa. 22.4. when he would sometimes refresh himself with the comfortable refreshments of Nature, the thoughts of his Peoples Misery do so afflict him, that his heart is ready to faint, to sink within him.
Marginal references: Heb. upon.
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