John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 8:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, etc.] These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, “for the breach of the daughter of my people”f182, which was made when the city was broken up and destroyed, (<245207>Jeremiah 52:7). I am broken; in heart and spirit: I am black; with grief and sorrow. The Targum is, “my face is covered with blackness, black as a pot.” Astonishment hath taken hold on me; at the miseries that were come upon his people; and there was no remedy for them, which occasion the following words.

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