John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 20:7
O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived ,.... What follows from hence to the end of the chapter is thought to have been said by the prophet, when in the stocks, or in prison, and shows mixture of grace and corruption in him; a struggle between flesh and spirit, and the force of a temptation under which he laboured, arising from difficulties and discouragements in his work; and he not only complains to God, but of him; that he had deceived him, when he first called him to be a... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 20:6
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house, shall go into captivity ,.... Particularly he and his family should not escape; whoever did: and thou shalt come to Babylon ; being brought there, though sore against his will: and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there ; even in a defiled land, as all other countries were reckoned by the Jews; and to be buried in such a land, Kimchi observes, was a curse; and so it is here threatened as such: thou, and all thy friends ... read more