Jeremiah 10:19

“Woe is me for my hurt! etc.] Or “breach”f218; which was made upon the people of the Jews, when besieged, taken, and carried captive; with whom the prophet heartily sympathized, and considered their calamities and distresses as his own; for these are the words of the prophet, lamenting the sad estate of his people. My wound is grievous; causes grief, is very painful, and hard to be endured: but I said; within himself, after he had thoroughly considered the matter: this is a grief; an affliction, a trial, and exercise: and I must bear it; patiently and quietly, since it is of God, and is justly brought upon the people for their sins.”

“Judea bewails its calamity. wound--the stroke I suffer under. I must bear--not humble submission to God's will (Mic 7:9), but sullen impenitence. Or, rather, it is prophetical of their ultimate acknowledgment of their guilt as the cause of their calamity (Lam 3:39).”

“The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jeremiah 10:19 Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable. A grief - Or, “my grief.” Jeremiah 10:20 tabernacle - i. e., “tent.” Jerusalem laments that her tent is plundered and her children carried into exile, and so “are not,” are dead Matthew 2:18, either absolutely, or dead to her in the remote land of their captivity. They can aid the widowed mother no longer in pitching her tent, or in hanging up the curtains round about it. Jeremiah 10:21 Therefore they shall not prosper - Rather, “therefore they have not governed wisely.” “The pastors,” i. e.,…”

“Woe is me - Here the prophet personates the complaint of the people of the land. Jeremiah 10:20”

“10:19 Jeremiah suffered personal loss along with his people; he spoke for the nation at large as well as for himself.”

“Woe: Jer 4:19, Jer 4:31, Jer 8:21, Jer 9:1, Jer 17:13; Lam 1:2, Lam 1:12-22, Lam 2:11-22, Lam 3:48 Truly: Psa 39:9, Psa 77:10; Isa 8:17; Lam 3:18-21, Lam 3:39, Lam 3:40; Mic 7:9 Jeremiah 10:20”