Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:23
Jeremiah 10:23. O Lord, I know, &c. The prophet now turns to God, and addresses himself to him, finding it to little purpose to speak to the people. It is some comfort to poor ministers, that, if men will not hear them, God will; and to him they have liberty of access at all times. Let them close their preaching with prayer, as the prophet here does, and then they will have no reason to complain that they have laboured in vain. That the way of man is not in himself The prophet must... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:19-25
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy.Jeremiah 10:19Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable.A grief - Or, “my grief.”Jeremiah 10:20tabernacle - i. e., “tent.” Jerusalem laments that her tent is plundered and her children carried into exile, and so “are not,” are dead Matthew 2:18, either absolutely, or dead to her in the remote land of their captivity. They can aid the widowed mother no... read more