Jeremiah 15:10 - Exposition

Woe is me, my mother ! This is one of those passages (comp. Introduction) which illustrate the sensitive and shrinking character of our prophet.

"If his meek spirit erred, opprest

That God denied repose,

What sin is ours, to whom Heaven's rest

Is pledged to heal earth's woes?"

(Cardinal Newman, in 'Lyra Apostolica,' 88.).

I have neither lent on usury, etc.; a speaking figure to men of the ancient world, to whom, as Dr. Payne Smith remarks, "the relations between the money-lender and the debtor were the most fruitful source of lawsuits and quarrellings."