Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 20:9
I said — He did not speak this openly, but in his heart. But — He found in his heart a constraint to go on.
I said — He did not speak this openly, but in his heart. But — He found in his heart a constraint to go on.
Verse Jeremiah 20:9. _I WILT NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM_] I will renounce the prophetic office, and return to my house. _AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES_] He felt stings of conscience for the has...
In the rest of the chapter we have an outbreak of deep emotion, of which the first part ends in a cry of hope Jeremiah 20:13, followed nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this the re...
CHAPTER 20 Pashur.-Jeremiah's Perplexity and Complaint _ 1. Pashur and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's great perplexity and complaint (Jeremiah 20:7) Jeremiah 20:1. A great scene now
THE PROPHET'S TROUBLES, HOPES, AND DARK DESPAIR. In passionate protest against his lot (possibly occasioned by the incident just related) Jeremiah complains that Yahweh has beguiled him into the work...
WAS. became....
_make mention_ rather, _think thereon_, i.e. on "the word." _I am weary with forbearing_ rather, as in Jeremiah 6:11, "weary with holding in....
These _vv_. shew us that the prophets did not speak of their own will. It was an influence which they could not resist that urged them forward, in spite of the certain ills that should follow to thems...
Jeremiah 20:7-18. The prophet bitterly complains to God of his lot The passage opens to us the depths of the prophet's soul, and we see him in intimate converse with God, and possessed now by the emo...
DISCOURSE: 1059 A SOUL UNDER DISCOURAGEMENT Jeremiah 20:9. _Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my...
THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM— _But when I say, I will not make mention of it—then it becomes in my heart,_ &c. So it is said of St. Paul, that _his spirit was stirred in him;_ and again...
IV. THE HUMAN VESSEL Jeremiah 20:7-18 In his public confrontation with Pashur Jeremiah had remained as firm as a rock. Now in his private moments with God he breaks down completely. He looks upon his...
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not sta...
20:9 in, (b-39) Or 'with bearing [it].'...
1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....
The prophet cannot refrain from delivering his message, though it entailed derision and mockery....
THEN I SAID... — The sense of a hopeless work, destined to fail, weighed on the prophet’s soul, and he would fain have withdrawn from it; but _it_ (the words in italics, though they do not spoil the s...
וְ אָמַרְתִּ֣י לֹֽא ־אֶזְכְּרֶ֗נּוּ וְ לֹֽא ־
CHAPTER XIII JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION Jeremiah 20:1 THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection of his message. "And Pashchur ben Immer the priest" (he was chief officer...
The story of the persecution which this action stirred up against him follows. Pashur heard the prophecy, and, smiting the prophet, arrested and imprisoned him. On the following day Jeremiah, being br...
_And there, or "for," &c. I was grieved continually. (Sanctius) --- I could not however refrain from speaking, Acts xvii. 16., and 1 Corinthians ix. 16., and Job xxxii. 18._...
What a blessed testimony, is it to the truth of the holy scriptures, that their effects on the souls of God's people, are in all ages the same. What Jeremiah said, all more or less find, that the word...
Now this passage is especially worthy of being observed; for not only teachers are influenced by this feeling, but all the godly without exception. For when we see that men are, as it were, made worse...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a sample of the...
THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS NAME,.... Not that he publicly said this before his enemies, or privately to his friends, but he said it in his heart; he thought...
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [s...
_For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil_ Or, rather, as Houbigant renders it, _For since I spake, and cried against iniquity, and denounced desolation, the word of the Lord_, &c. B...
The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow...
Then I said, or, "If I said," I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS NAME, in trying to escape the unpleasant experiences which attached to his fearless testifying, BUT HIS WORD WAS...
7-13 The prophet complains of the insult and injury he experienced. But ver. Jeremiah 20:7 may be read, Thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou wast stronger than I; and didst overpower me...
THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS NAME: this daily scorn and reproach which the prophet saw himself exposed unto, for preaching against the sin and wickedness of t...
Jeremiah 20:9 said H559 (H8804) mention H2142 (H8799) speak H1696 (H8762) name H8034 heart H3820 burning...
JEREMIAH IS SO DISTRAUGHT THAT HE BERATES YHWH AND POINTS OUT HOW TOUGH HE IS FINDING THINGS, AND YET HE ADMITS THAT HE HAS TO SPEAK OUT WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT BECAUSE YHWH'S WORD IS LIKE A BURNIN...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first persecution. His complaint to God and encouragement in God. CHARACTERS: God, Pashur, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: Those who declare the whole counsel of God may ex...
Jeremiah 20:3. _The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur,_ which signifies security or increase; _but Magormissabib,_ a terror on every side, or terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet, ye...
_Then I said, I will not make mention of Him nor speak any more in His name._ JEREMIAH DISCOURAGED I. Jeremiah’s momentary rashness. Oh! it was a rash speech--like the rashness of Job, like the petul...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 20:9 BURNING FIRE... IN MY BONES. When Jeremiah decides not to preach, he apparently feels intense (and possibly bodily) pain, as if the words are trying to burst forth. He c...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. With chap. 20 the first section of this book closes. Probably this was Jeremiah’s last public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed the...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 20:1 The continuation of the preceding narrative. PASHUR THE SON OF TRAINER. This man belonged to the sixteenth of the sacerdotal families or classes (1 Chronicles 24:14). Another...
Now Pashur (Jeremiah 20:1). And the name means "prosperity all around." Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah had prophesie...
1 Corinthians 9:16; 1 Corinthians 9:17; 1 Kings 19:3; 1 Kings 19:4;...