Jeremiah 30:15

15 Why do you cry out about your wound? Your pain can't be healed. Your guilt is very great. And you have committed many sins. That is why I have done all of those things to you.

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 No one will stand up for you. There isn't any medicine for your sore. There isn't any healing for you.

14 All those who were going to help you have forgotten you. They do not care about you. I have struck you as if I were your enemy. I have punished you as if I were very mean. That is because your guilt is so great. You have sinned so much.

15 Why do you cry out about your wound? Your pain can't be healed. Your guilt is very great. And you have committed many sins. That is why I have done all of those things to you.

16 "But everyone who destroys you will be destroyed. All of your enemies will be forced to leave their countries. Those who steal from you will be stolen from. I will take the belongings of those who take things from you.

17 But I will make you healthy again. I will heal your wounds," announces the Lord. "That is because you have been thrown out. You are called Zion, the one no one cares about."