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Jeremia 8:18

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Jeremia 8:18 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 8:18

When I would comfort myself against terror
Either naturally, by eating and drinking, the necessary and lawful means of refreshment; or spiritually, by reading the word of God, and looking over the promises in it: my heart is faint in me;
at the consideration of the calamities which were coming upon his people, and which were made known to him by a spirit of prophecy, of which he had no room to doubt. So the Targum takes them to be the words of the prophet, paraphrasing them,

``for them, saith the prophet, my heart grieves.''
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Jeremia 8:18 In-Context

16 Man hört ihre Rosse schnauben von Dan her; vom Wiehern ihrer Gäule erbebt das ganze Land. Und sie fahren daher und werden das Land auffressen mit allem, was darin ist, die Städte samt allen, die darin wohnen.
17 Denn siehe, ich will Schlangen und Basilisken unter euch senden, die nicht zu beschwören sind; die sollen euch stechen, spricht der HERR.
18 Was mag mich in meinem Jammer erquicken? Mein Herz ist krank.
19 Siehe, die Tochter meines Volks wird schreien aus fernem Lande her: "Will denn er HERR nicht mehr Gott sein zu Zion, oder soll sie keinen König mehr haben?" Ja, warum haben sie mich so erzürnt durch ihre Bilder und fremde, unnütze Gottesdienste?
20 "Die Ernte ist vergangen, der Sommer ist dahin, und uns ist keine Hilfe gekommen."
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