21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. …
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them , not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is…
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