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Jeremia 20:8

Listen to Jeremia 20:8
8 Denn so oft ich rede, muß ich schreien, Gewalttat und Zerstörung rufen; denn das Wort Jehovas ist mir zur Verhöhnung und zum Spott geworden den ganzen Tag.

Jeremia 20:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 20:8

For since I spake, I cried out
Or, "when I speak, I cry" {a}; whensoever I speak in the name of the Lord, and deliver message from him to the people, I lift up my voice and cry aloud, that all may hear and understand; and as showing zeal, fervour, and diligence: or, "I cry" with grief and trouble at the usage I meet with, and the contempt that is cast upon the word; or because of what I am obliged to declare to them, as follows. The Targum takes in both sense, of the word thus,

``for at the time that I prophesy, I lift up my voice, weeping, and crying.''
I cried violence and spoil:
or, "proclaimed" it F2, for a different word is here used; that is, he publicly declared the rapine and oppression they were guilty of, inveighed against it, and reproved them for it; and foretold the violence of the enemy, and the spoil that he should make of them, when he should come upon them, even the king of Babylon; as well as cried out and complained of the injurious treatment he himself met with from them; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a
derision daily;
which is a reason either why he cried with grief and sorrow; or why he cried violence and spoil, ruin and destruction: or, "though the word of the Lord was" F3, &c; yet he went on publishing and proclaiming it: or, "surely the word of the Lord was made a reproach" F4, &c; either because of the matter of it, it not being believed, or the manner in which it was delivered; or because it was not immediately fulfilled.
FOOTNOTES:

F1 (qeza rbda ydm) "quum loquor exclamavi, i.e. loquor exclamans", Gataker.
F2 (arqa) "clamo", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius; "proclamo", Piscator.
F3 (rbd hyh yk) "quamvis".
F4 "Verum, verbum Domini", so some in Vatablus; "utique", De Dieu, Gataker.
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Jeremia 20:8 In-Context

6 Und du, Paschchur, und alle Bewohner deines Hauses, ihr werdet in die Gefangenschaft gehen; und du wirst nach Babel kommen und daselbst sterben und daselbst begraben werden, du und alle deine Freunde, welchen du falsch geweissagt hast. -
7 Jehova, du hast mich beredet, und ich habe mich bereden lassen; du hast mich ergriffen und überwältigt. Ich bin zum Gelächter geworden den ganzen Tag, jeder spottet meiner.
8 Denn so oft ich rede, muß ich schreien, Gewalttat und Zerstörung rufen; denn das Wort Jehovas ist mir zur Verhöhnung und zum Spott geworden den ganzen Tag.
9 Und spreche ich: Ich will ihn nicht mehr erwähnen, noch in seinem Namen reden, so ist es in meinem Herzen wie brennendes Feuer; eingeschlossen in meinen Gebeinen; und ich werde müde, es auszuhalten, und vermag es nicht.
10 Denn ich habe die Verleumdung vieler gehört, Schrecken ringsum: "Zeiget an, so wollen wir ihn anzeigen!" Alle meine Freunde lauern auf meinen Fall: "Vielleicht läßt er sich bereden, so daß wir ihn überwältigen und uns an ihm rächen können."
The Elberfelder Bible is in the public domain.

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