What does Jeremiah 20:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?"
Verse Jeremiah 20:18. _WHEREFORE CAME I FORTH_] It would have been well had I never been born, as I have neither comfort in my life, nor comfort in my work....
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 follo...
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...
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Compare Job 3....
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...
C. Curse Jeremiah 20:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! (15) Cursed is the man who brought the good news to my f...
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding thanksgiving to be explained thus: to s...
1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....
WHEREFORE CAME I FORTH...? — Like the preceding verse, this is in its tone, almost in its words, an echo of Job 3:11; Job 3:20....
לָ֤מָּה זֶּה֙ מֵ רֶ֣חֶם יָצָ֔אתִי לִ רְאֹ֥ות עָמָ֖ל וְ יָגֹ֑ון וַ יִּכְל֥וּ בְּ בֹ֖שֶׁת...
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...
So great a contrast there is between the last verse of the preceding paragraph and the beginning of this, that I cannot but suppose the Prophet is not speaking these things of himself. And I the rathe...
He then adds, _My mother might have been my grave; _(18) that is, “This light and life I value not; why then did I not die in my mother’s womb? and why did she conceive me?” Then he says, _Why came I...
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...
WHEREFORE CAME I FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB TO SEE LABOUR AND SORROW,.... "Labour" in performing his work and office as a prophet; and "sorrow" in suffering reproach, contempt, and persecution for it; whic...
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? Ver. 18. _Wherefore came I forth, &c._] Passions are a most dangerous and heady water when...
_Cursed be the man_, &c. As in the forms of rejoicing upon a birth-day they blessed every person and thing concerned in the birth, and said, _Blessed be the womb that bare thee_, and the like, and he...
The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow...
14-18 When grace has the victory, it is good to be ashamed of our folly, to admire the goodness of God, and be warned to guard our spirits another time. See how strong the temptation was, over which t...
These words let us know the prophet's temptation to these extravagant eruptions of passion; it was the reproach, and shame, and affliction which he endured for the faithful discharge of his ministry;...
Jeremiah 20:18 forth H3318 (H8804) womb H7358 see H7200 (H8800) labor H5999 sorrow H3015 days H3117 consumed H3615 (H8799) shame H1322 came - Job 3:20, Job 14:1, Job 14:13;...
JEREMIAH CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH (JEREMIAH 20:14). This passage closes off the section with a heart rending call by Jeremiah that the day of his birth be cursed, along with all who assisted in en...
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 e...
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...
_An my familiars watched for my halting._ PATHETIC EXPERIENCES In these verses we have two distinct aspects of human experience. Within this brief section Jeremiah is on the hill top and in the deepe...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 20:18 Jeremiah’s ministry causes him hard work, SORROW, and SHAME. He accepts his role, but has no illusions of fame, approval, or appreciation. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document....
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 prophesi...
1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Peter 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:12; Acts 5:41; Genesis 3:16; Hebrews 10:36; Hebrews 11:36; Hebrews 12:2; Hebrews 13:13;...