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Jeremiah 18:23
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21 Therefore adeliver up their children to the famine,
And pour out their blood
By the force of the sword;
Let their wives become widows
And bbereaved of their children.
Let their men be put to death,
Their young men be slain
By the sword in battle. 
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses,
When You bring a troop suddenly upon them;
For they have dug a pit to take me,
And hidden snares for my feet.
23 Yet, Lord, You know all their counsel
Which is against me, to slay me.
aProvide no atonement for their iniquity,
Nor blot out their sin from Your sight;
But let them be overthrown before You.
Deal thus with them
In the time of Your banger. 
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Barnes' Notes
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Jeremiah 18:23

Yet, Lord - Better, But, Lord. They conceal their plots, but God knows, and therefore must punish.

Neither blot out ... - Or, "blot not out their sin from before Thy face that they may be made to stumble before Thee."

Thus - Omit this word. Since there is an acceptable time and a day of salvation, so there is a time of anger, and Jeremiah' s prayer is that God would deal with his enemies at such a time, and when therefore no mercy would be shown. On imprecations such as these, see Ps. 109 introductory note. Though they did not flow from personal vengeance, but from a pure zeal for God' s honor, yet they belong to the legal spirit of the Jewish covenant. We must not, because we have been shown a "more excellent way," condemn too harshly that sterner spirit of justice which animated so many of the saints of the earlier dispensation.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 18:23:

Amos 2:12
Acts 3:19

 

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