9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. …
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! …
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)Pashur’s doom was to be a terror to himself ; Jeremiah, even now, in this hour of temptation, is far from being so; and yet it cannot be denied but that he is here, through the infirmity of the flesh, strangely agitated within himself. Good men are but men at the best. God is not extreme to mark what they say and do amiss, and therefore we must not be so, but make the best of it. In these verses i…
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