20My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. …
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)In these verses, I. The prophet threatens, in God’s name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer. 10:17 , 18 . The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into captivity, were very secure; they thought themselves inhabitants of a fortress ; their country was their strong hold, and, in their own conceit, impregnable; but they are here told to think of leaving it: th…
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