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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 8:18-19

Jeremiah 8:18-19. When I would comfort myself, &c. “When I would apply comfort to myself, my heart misgives me: I find great reason for my fears, and none for my hopes.” Blaney translates the verse, sorrow is upon me past my remedying; my heart within me is faint. They seem to be the words of the prophet, who had endeavoured to comfort himself in his trouble by acquiescing in the will of God; but the miseries coming on his countrymen continually occurring to his mind in all their... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:18-22

Mourning for Judah (8:18-9:22)The prophet is overcome with grief as he foresees the tragic end of the nation. The people wonder why God their King does not save them. God replies that it is because of their idolatry. They now realize that they can no longer expect his salvation (18-20). Nothing can heal Judah’s spiritual sickness now; the end has come. And nothing can heal the wounds of grief in Jeremiah’s heart as he sees his people suffer (21-22).Jeremiah is unable to express the extent of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:18

I: i.e. the prophet again. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:19

provoked . . . vanities. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:21 , same word). Compare Jeremiah 7:19 . graven Images. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 7:5 , same word). App-92 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:18

"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?""The daughter of my people ..." (Jeremiah 8:19). Note the triple repetition of these pathetic words in these last verses of Jeremiah 8. These verses represent the people as asking why they must... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:18

Jeremiah 8:18. When I would comfort myself— Comfort, or mirth flies from me: sorrow hangs over me, my heart is faint. Houb. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:19

Jeremiah 8:19. Behold, the voice, &c.— The prophet anticipates in his imagination the captivity of his countrymen in Babylon, a far country; and represents them there as asking with a mixture of grief and astonishment, if there was no such a Being as JEHOVAH, who presided in Sion, that he so neglected his people, and suffered them to continue in such a wretched plight. Upon this complaint of theirs God justly breaks in with a question on his part; and demands why, if they acknowledged such... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:18

18. ( :-). The lamentation of the prophet for the impending calamity of his country. against sorrow—or, with respect to sorrow. MAURER translates, "Oh, my exhilaration as to sorrow!" that is, "Oh, that exhilaration ('comfort', from an Arabic root, to shine as the rising sun) would shine upon me as to my sorrow!" in me—within me. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:19

19. The prophet in vision hears the cry of the exiled Jews, wondering that God should have delivered them up to the enemy, seeing that He is Zion's king, dwelling in her (Micah 3:11). In the latter half of the verse God replies that their own idolatry, not want of faithfulness on His part, is the cause. because of them that dwell in a far country—rather, "from a land of distances," that is, a distant land (Isaiah 39:3). English Version understands the cry to be of the Jews in their own land,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 8:4-25

Incorrigible Judah 8:4-10:25The twin themes of Judah’s stubborn rebellion and her inevitable doom tie this section of miscellaneous messages together. The section contains mostly poetic material, and the prophecies bear the marks of Jehoiakim’s early reign (perhaps shortly after 609 B.C.). read more