Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt ... hurt - literally, “Because of the breaking ... broken.” These are the words of the prophet, whose heart is crushed by the cry of his countrymen.
I am black - Or, I go mourning.
For the hurt ... hurt - literally, “Because of the breaking ... broken.” These are the words of the prophet, whose heart is crushed by the cry of his countrymen.
I am black - Or, I go mourning.
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JEREMIAH 8:18 TO JEREMIAH 9:1. JEREMIAH'S SORROW OVER JUDAH'S SUFFERING. The prophet, in sorrowful sympathy with his people, hears in anticipation the cry of the exiles and Yahweh's answer. They repro...
FOR THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE AM. HURT. A favorite symbol of. city in the prophets is. woman. The spiritual Babylon appears as. harlot; the New Jerusalem as the Bride of the Lamb; and Jeru...
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
_the hurt_ lit. _the breach_, and so the verb that follows. _black_ mg. _mourning_(as to garb). Cp. on Jeremiah 4:28....
DISCOURSE: 1043 THE REMEDY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SEASONS OF GRACE Jeremiah 8:20. _The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I...
FOR THE HURT, &C.— Jeremiah here deplores the misfortunes of Jerusalem, and continues to do so in the subsequent chapter. Houbigant renders this verse, _I am wounded with the wound of the daughter of...
D. Unbearable Pain on the Part of the Prophet Jeremiah 8:18 to Jeremiah 9:1 TRANSLATION (18) O my Comfort against sorrow! My heart is faint within me! (19) Behold, the sound of the cry of the daughte...
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. I AM BLACK - sad in visage with grief (, "All faces shall gather blackness")....
8:21 breach (a-4) Or 'crushing,' or 'destruction' as ch. 6.1. The word is the same in ver. 11 and ch. 6.14, and as the verb 'crushed' in this verse, and 'ruin,' Lamentations 2:11 ....
BLACK] RM 'mourning.'...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
FOR THE HURT... — Now the prophet again speaks in his own person. He is _crushed_ in that _crushing_ of his people. His face is _darkened,_ as one that mourns. (Comp. Psalms 38:6; Joshua 5:11.)...
עַל ־שֶׁ֥בֶר בַּת ־עַמִּ֖י הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּי קָדַ֕רְתִּי...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I (q) hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. (q) The prophet speaks this....
_I. Jeremias. (Menochius) --- The prophet continues to speak in the next chapter._...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
As the hardness of the people was so great, that the threatenings we have observed did not touch them, the Prophet now ascribes to himself what he had _before _attributed to them. _We _then see how th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
FOR THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE AM I HURT,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy wit...
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Ver. 21. _For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, I am black._] Or, I go in black, mo...
_For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt_, &c. These are the words of the prophet, lamenting the miserable condition of his country. The Hebrew is more literally rendered, _For the breach...
FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT...
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, so the prophet once more cries out in bitter grief; I AM BLACK, deeply sad and mournful, his face expressing dark despair; ASTONISHMENT HATH TAKEN...
14-22 At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the pre...
The prophet here shows how deeply he is affected with the people's misery, he deeply sympathized with them. THE HURT; it signifies _breach_, I am broken in my spirit; and so it answers to the breach t...
Jeremiah 8:21 hurt H7667 daughter H1323 people H5971 hurt H7665 (H8717) mourning H6937 (H8804) Astonishment H8047
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 8:18 In this exchange between Judah and God, the people claim that God has deserted them, but God notes their ongoing worship of idols. They reply that they ARE NOT SAVED (an...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 17:16; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 9:1; Joel 2:6;
Am I hurt — The prophet here shews how deeply he is affected with the peoples misery. Black — I am as those that are clad in deep mourning....