Jeremiah 8:19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13-22

In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them, not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is a consumption determined, Isa. 10:23. 1. They shall be quite stripped of all their comforts (Jer.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people ,.... This was what made his heart faint, such was his sympathy with his countrymen, his people in distress, whom he affectionately calls the daughter of his people, whose cry was loud, and whose voice he heard lamenting their case: because of them that dwell in a far country ; because of the Chaldeans, who came from a far country; see Jeremiah 5:15 who were come into their land, and devoured it; through fear of them, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:19

Verse 19 The Prophet in this verse assumes different characters: he first denounces ruin, which, though near, was not yet dreaded by the people; he then represents the people, and relates what they would say; in the third place, he adds an answer in God’s name to check the clamors of the people. When he says that the daughter of his people uttered a cry, he is to be understood as referring to a future time; for the Jews as yet continued perversely in their sins, and ridiculed all threatenings,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:19

Because of them that dwell in , etc. The Hebrew simply has "from them," etc. The prophet is transported in imam-nation to the time of the fulfillment of his prophecies. He hears the lamentation of his countrymen, who are languishing in captivity. Is not the Lord in Zion , etc.? is the burden of their sad complaints; "king" is a familiar synonym for "God" (comp. Isaiah 8:21 ; Isaiah 33:22 ; but not Psalms 89:18 , which is certainly mistranslated in Authorized Version). But why" in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:19

Or, “Behold the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is not Yahweh in Zion? Is not her king there? Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with foreign vanities?” Their complaint, “Is there no Jehovah in Zion?” is met by God demanding of them the reason why instead of worshipping Him they have set up idols. read more

Joseph Benson

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 8:19

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

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 8:19

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

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