For aHe has delivered the life of the poor
From the hand of evildoers.
Who brought news to my father, saying,
“A male child has been born to you!”
Making him very glad.
Which the Lord aoverthrew, and did not relent;
Let him bhear the cry in the morning
And the shouting at noon,
That my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always enlarged with me.
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Jeremiah 20:15
A man child—The birth of a son is in the East a special subject of joy; whereas that of a daughter is often not so.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding thanksgiving is to be explained thus: to show how great was the deliverance (Jeremiah 20:13), he subjoins a picture of what his wounded spirit had been previous to his deliverance; I had said in the time of my imprisonment, "Cursed be the day"; my feeling was that of Job (Job 3:3, Job 3:10-11, whose words Jeremiah therefore copies). Though Jeremiah's zeal had been stirred up, not so much for self as for God's honor trampled on by the rejection of the prophet's words, yet it was intemperate when he made his birth a subject for cursing, which was really a ground for thanksgiving.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 20:15:
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