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Geremia 20:8

Listen to Geremia 20:8
8 Perciocchè, da che io parlo, sclamo, e grido violenza, ed assassinamento; imperocchè la parola del Signore mi è stata in obbrobrio, ed in ischerno tuttodì.

Geremia 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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Geremia 20:8 In-Context

6 E tu, Pashur, e tutti quelli che abitano in casa tua, andrete in cattività; e tu entrerai in Babilonia, e quivi morrai, e quivi sarai seppellito, tu, e tutti i tuoi amici, a’ quali tu hai profetizzato falsamente.
7 O Signore, tu mi allettasti, ed io mi lasciai allettare; tu mi facesti forza, e mi vincesti; tuttodì sono in derisione, ciascuno si beffa di me.
8 Perciocchè, da che io parlo, sclamo, e grido violenza, ed assassinamento; imperocchè la parola del Signore mi è stata in obbrobrio, ed in ischerno tuttodì.
9 Laonde io dissi: Io non lo mentoverò più, e non parlerò più nel suo Nome ma vi è stato nel mio cuore come un fuoco ardente, rinchiuso nelle mie ossa, e mi sono stancato per ritenerlo, e non ho potuto;
10 perciocchè io ho udito come molti mi hanno infamato; spavento è d’ogn’intorno: rapportate, e noi rapporteremo. Tutti quelli co’ quali io stava in buona pace mi hanno spiato, se io incappava punto; ed hanno detto: Forse si lascerà egli cogliere per inganno, e voi verremo a capo di lui.
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