Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:17-25
Prepare for captivity (10:17-25)Picturing Jerusalem under siege, Jeremiah sadly tells the people that the end has almost come. They should collect their few remaining belongings and prepare for the long journey to captivity in Babylon (17-18). The people mourn for their nation, which has fallen like a collapsed tent. Chiefly to blame for this catastrophe are the nation’s worthless leaders (19-21). Jeremiah then imagines the enemy armies roaring down from the north and desolating the towns of... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:19-20
Jeremiah 10:19-20. Wo is me for my hurt The prophet here again pathetically laments the overthrow of his country, and, either in his own person or in that of his country, bewails the plundering and desolation of the cities and houses, as if they were so many shepherds’ tents, to which he compares them, Jeremiah 10:20. But I said, This is a grief, and I must bear it Blaney thinks the prophet here suggests motives of patience and consolation to his country, in regard to the evils that were... read more