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Jeremiah 8:21

Jeremiah 8:21

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, "for the breach of the daughter of my people" , which was made when the city was broken up and destroyed, .

I am broken; in heart and spirit:I am black; with grief and sorrow. The Targum is,"my face is covered with blackness, black as a pot.''Astonishment hath taken hold on me; at the miseries that were come upon his people; and there was no remedy for them, which occasion the following words.

rbv le "super contritione", V. L.

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