Jeremiah 7:16
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What does Jeremiah 7:16 mean?
Therefore pray not thou for this people
These are the words of the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah,
forbidding him to pray for the people of the Jews; which he
either was doing, or about to do, and which, from the great
affection he had for them, he was inclined unto; wherefore, to
show how much the Lord was displeased with them, and how
determined he was to punish them with captivity, he orders the
prophet not to make any supplication for them: neither lift
up cry nor prayer for them;
referring to the gestures of lifting up the eyes and hands in
prayer, and also to the frame of the heart, in the exercise of
faith and holy confidence: "cry" and "prayer" are put together,
because prayer is sometimes made, especially when persons are in
great distress, with strong cryings and tears; see ( Hebrews 5:7 ) :
neither make intercession to me;
or, "meet me" F15; or come between him and this
people, and so act the part of a mediator, of which office
intercession is a branch; it properly belongs to Christ. The Jews
say
F16 there is no (heygp) , "meeting", but prayer, or that is always intended by it; for proof of which they cite this passage: for I will not hear thee;
on the behalf of them, being so highly provoked by them, and determined they should go into captivity; see ( Jeremiah 15:1 ) .
F15 (yb egpt law) "et ne oecurras mihi", Calvin; "et ne obsistas mihi", V. L. "et ne intervenias apud me", Tigurine version.
F16 T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 26. 2. Taanith, fol. 7. 2. & 8. 1. Sota, fol. 14. 1. & Sanhedrin, fol. 95. 2.
