Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Gird up thy loins - A symbol of preparation for earnest exertion, and implying also firm purpose, and some degree of alacrit
Be not dismayed ... - literally, "be not dismayed at their faces, lest I dismay thee before their faces." Naturally despondent and self-distrustful, there was yet no feebleness in Jeremiah' s character. There was in him a moral superiority of the will, which made him, at any cost to himself, faithfully discharge whatever his conscience told him was his duty.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 1:17:
Isaiah 45:1
Isaiah 47:6
Jeremiah 17:5-18
Micah 2:6
Luke 12:35-36
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