Jeremiah 10:20

“My tabernacle is spoiled, etc.] Not the temple at Jerusalem only, rather Jerusalem itself, as Kimchi; or the whole land, as the Targum, “my land is wasted:” the allusion is to the tents of shepherds, and denotes the unstable condition of the Jewish nation: and all my cords are broken: all the rest of the cities of the land are destroyed, as Kimchi; and so the Targum, “my cities are spoiled:” as the cords are what the parts of the tabernacle or tent are fastened and kept together with, they may intend the strength of the nation, which lay in its wealth, its fortresses, and the numbers of its people, now weakened, loosed, and broke. My children are gone forth of me; into captivity, as the…”

“tabernacle is spoiled--metaphor from the tents of nomadic life; as these are taken down in a few moments, so as not to leave a vestige of them, so Judea (Jer 4:20). cords--with which the coverings of the tent are extended. curtains--tent-curtains.”

“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.,…”

“My tabernacle - He describes the overthrow of the land, or Jerusalem, by the breaking of the cords of a tabernacle, the use whereof is to fasten it on every side to stakes in the ground, which cords being broken the tabernacle falls. Jeremiah 10:21”

“10:20 Jeremiah’s beloved home community of Anathoth was destroyed; even the town’s children were taken into exile. The same was true of the entire nation.”

“tabernacle: Jer 4:20; Isa 54:2; Lam 2:4-6 my children: Jer 31:15; Job 7:8; Pro 12:7; Isa 49:20-22 there: Jer 4:20; Isa 51:16 Jeremiah 10:21”