Jeremiah 30:15

15 Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done these things to thee.

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 none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.

14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.

15 Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done these things to thee.

16 Therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured: and all thy enemies shall be carried into captivity: and they that waste thee shall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

17 For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.