Jeremiah 30:15

15 Why are you crying out about your injury? There is no cure for your pain. I did these things to you because of your great guilt, because of your many sins.

Jeremiah 30:15 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 30:15

Why criest thou for thine affliction?
&c.] Or complainest of the hardness, and heaviness, and continuance of it, when there was such a just cause for it? when men have sinned at a high rate, they have no reason to complain of the punishment of their sins, ( Lamentations 3:39 ) ; thy sorrow [is] incurable, for the multitude of thine iniquity;
such were the number of their iniquities, that they brought them into such a sorrowful and wretched estate and condition that there was no recovery of them, nor hope of recovery of them, by their own power, or by the help and assistance of others: [because] thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee;
which shows the justice of God, and is a vindication of it under all the seeming severity of it. The Jews ^F24 acknowledge, that under the second temple there was a great increase of capital crimes, such as murders, adulteries for which, and other sins, wrath came upon them to the uttermost by the Romans; and they still continue under the visible marks of the divine displeasure.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Misna Sota, c. 9. sect. 9.

Jeremiah 30:15 In-Context

13 There is no one to argue your case and no cure for your sores. So you will not be healed.

14 All those nations who were your friends have forgotten you. They don't care about you. I have hurt you as an enemy would. I punished you very hard, because your guilt was so great and your sins were so many.

15 Why are you crying out about your injury? There is no cure for your pain. I did these things to you because of your great guilt, because of your many sins.

16 But all those nations that destroyed you will now be destroyed. All your enemies will become captives in other lands. Those who stole from you will have their own things stolen. Those who took things from you in war will have their own things taken.

17 I will bring back your health and heal your injuries," says the Lord, "because other people forced you away. They said about you, 'No one cares about Jerusalem!'"