John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:30
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do ?.... Or, "O thou spoiled" F11 ואתי שדוד "et tu vastata", Pagninus, Montanus "et tu, res vastata", Cocceius. , wasted, and undone creature, how wilt thou help thyself? by what means dost thou think thou canst be delivered? it suggests that her ruin was inevitable; that she could not be recovered from it by herself, or any other: though thou clothest thyself with crimson ; and so look like some rich and noble person; hoping thereby to... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 4:19-31
The prophet is here in an agony, and cries out like one upon the rack of pain with some acute distemper, or as a woman in travail. The expressions are very pathetic and moving, enough to melt a heart of stone into compassion: My bowels! my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; and yet well, and in health himself, and nothing ails him. Note, A good man, in such a bad world as this is, cannot but be a man of sorrows. My heart makes a noise in me, through the tumult of my spirits, and I cannot... read more