Jeremiah 20:8

“For since I spake, I cried out, etc.] Or, “when I speak, I cry”f411; whensoever I speak in the name of the Lord, and deliver message from him to the people, I lift up my voice and cry aloud, that all may hear and understand; and as showing zeal, fervour, and diligence: or, “I cry” with grief and trouble at the usage I meet with, and the contempt that is cast upon the word; or because of what I am obliged to declare to them, as follows. The Targum takes in both sense, of the word thus, “for at the time that I prophesy, I lift up my voice, weeping, and crying.” I cried violence and spoil: or, “proclaimed” itf412, for a different word is here used; that is, he publicly declared the rapine and…”

“Rather, "Whenever I speak, I cry out. Concerning violence and spoil, I (am compelled to) cry out," that is, complain [MAURER]. English Version in the last clause is more graphic, "I cried violence and spoil" (Jer 6:7)! I could not speak in a calm tone; their desperate wickedness compelled me to "cry out." because--rather, "therefore," the apodosis of the previous sentence; because in discharging my prophetic functions, I not merely spake, but cried; and cried, violence . . . ; therefore the word of the Lord was made a reproach to me (Jer 20:7).”

“In the rest of the chapter we have an outbreak of deep emotion, of which the first part ends in a cry of hope Jeremiah 20:13, followed nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this the result of feelings wounded by the indignities of a public scourging and a night spent in the stocks? Or was it not the mental agony of knowing that his ministry had (as it seemed) failed? He stands indeed before the multitudes with unbending strength, warning prince and people with unwavering constancy of the national ruin that would follow necessarily upon their sins. Before God he stood crushed by the thought that he had labored in vain, and spent his strength for nothing. It is important to…”

“Since - Since I first began to be a prophet, I have faithfully discharged my office, and that with warmth and zeal. Spoil - I have prophesied that violence and spoil was coming. Because - Because of that scorn and derision with which they treated him. Jeremiah 20:9”

“20:8-9 Jeremiah found it impossible not to speak the words of God’s judgment, even though his messages turned him into a household joke (cp. Job 32:18-20; Ps 39:1-3; Acts 4:18-20).”

“I cried: Jer 4:19-22, Jer 5:1, Jer 5:6, Jer 5:15-17, Jer 6:6, Jer 6:7, Jer 7:9, Jer 13:13, Jer 13:14, Jer 15:1-4, Jer 15:13, Jer 15:14, Jer 17:27; Jer 18:16, Jer 18:17, Jer 19:7-11, Jer 28:8 the word: Jer 20:7, Jer 6:10; Ch2 36:16; Lam 3:61-63; Luk 11:45; Heb 11:26, Heb 13:13; Pe1 4:14 Jeremiah 20:9”