Verse 10
THE PROPHET IS CORRECTED AND COMFORTED, Jeremiah 15:10-21.
10. Woe is me Here begins the complaint of the prophet and the answer of Jehovah, in a conversation which constitutes the remainder of the chapter. “Woe is me,” my mother! The deep pathos of this language shows that it was no light burden of duty which Jeremiah was bearing. The language suggests that of Job, in which he cursed the day of his birth, (Job 3:3, etc.,) but is entirely different in spirit. What gives Jeremiah such depth of sorrow is, not only the fate of the commonwealth, but also his experience of personal loneliness, shut out as he was from the sympathy of his countrymen.
A man of strife A prophet of evil omen. I have neither lent, etc. So it seems that in ancient as well as modern times the relations of moneylender and borrower were fruitful of strife.
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