Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 30:15
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow [is] incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: [because] thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
Translate it:
Why criest thou because of thy breaking?
Because thy pain is grievous?
Because of the multitude of thine iniquity,
Because thy sins are strong,
I have done these things unto thee.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 15. Thy sorrow is incurable] anush, desperate. See Jer 30:12.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable:
Why complainest thou of my dealings with thee? or, as Jer 15:18, the cause of thy sorrow is incurable: or, as others, Why complainest thou that thy sorrow is incurable? Though it be so, yet thou hast no reason to complain of my dealings, for thy destruction is of thyself; I am just in what I have done, for I have but given thee that death which is the wages of thy work of sin; nor was I suddenly provoked, it is for the multitude of thine iniquities, and in that case the living man hath no just reason to complain, Lam 3:39.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. Why criest thouas ifGod’s severity was excessive. Thou hast no reason to complain, forthine affliction is just. Thy cry is too late, for the time ofrepentance and mercy is past [CALVIN].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Why criest thou for thine affliction?…. Or complainest of the hardness, and heaviness, and continuance of it, when there was such a just cause for it? when men have sinned at a high rate, they have no reason to complain of the punishment of their sins, La 3:39;
thy sorrow [is] incurable, for the multitude of thine iniquity; such were the number of their iniquities, that they brought them into such a sorrowful and wretched estate and condition that there was no recovery of them, nor hope of recovery of them, by their own power, or by the help and assistance of others:
[because] thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee; which shows the justice of God, and is a vindication of it under all the seeming severity of it. The Jews x acknowledge, that under the second temple there was a great increase of capital crimes, such as murders, adulteries, c. for which, and other sins, wrath came upon them to the uttermost by the Romans and they still continue under the visible marks of the divine displeasure.
x Misna Sota, c. 9. sect. 9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The Prophet now anticipates an objection, lest the Jews should expostulate with God; for it sufficiently appears that they always complained of God’s extreme severity, when they indulged themselves in their vices. As soon then as God treated them as they deserved, they became exasperated and enraged against him. Hence the Prophet now meets their perverse and unjust complaints, and asks, why they cried out for their bruising, as though he had said, that these clamors were much too late, when they had passed by the season for repentance. For God had suspended his extreme threatenings until the people had betrayed so much obstinacy, that there was no room for mercy. When, therefore, the people’s wickedness had become unhealable, the Prophet, as we have seen, proclaimed their exile.
Now, indeed, he derides their late crying, for they had been too long torpid in their contempt of God: Why, then, dost thou cry for thy bruising? grievous is thy sorrow, or, grievousness is to thy sorrow; (12) but for the multitude of thine iniquity, and because thy sins have grown strong, have I done these things to thee Here God frees himself from the calumnies of the people, and shews that those who murmured or made a clamor, acted unjustly, having not considered what they merited: for they were worthy of the heaviest punishment, because they not only in one way brought ruin on themselves, and more and more kindled God’s vengeance, but had also for many years hardened themselves in their sins; and they had, besides, given themselves up, in various ways, to every kind of wickedness, so that the Prophet justly upbraided them with a multitude of iniquity, and also with a mass of sins. God then says, that he had not exceeded the limits of moderation in the punishment he inflicted on the people, because their desperate wickedness and perverseness compelled him. But consolation is immediately subjoined, —
(12) Rather “sore,” or wound. The word מכאב indeed means sometimes the soreness or wound of the mind, that is, sorrow or grief; but here, no doubt, it retains its primary idea, correspondently with stroke, bruise, and wound. The Targ. retains this meaning, while the versions go all astray. Then it is, “Miserable is thy sore.” The rest of the verse is as follows, —
Because multiplied had thine iniquity, Grown strong had thy sins, Have I done these things to thee.
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Ed.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(15) Why criest thou . . .?The personification of the previous verse is continued. The prophet looks on Judahas in Lam. 1:1-2as on some forlorn and desperate castaway smitten with pestilence, crying in the agony of her hopelessness; and he reminds her that she is but bearing the righteous punishment of her iniquities. In accepting the law of retribution, as seen in her own sufferings, she might find hope for the future. Her oppressors also would come under that law. The wheel would come full circle, and the devourers would be themselves devoured.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15. Why criest thou, etc. It is too late for prayers and lamentations to avail.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jer 30:15. Why criest thou? Why criest thou over thy affliction, thy incurable sorrow? it is for the greatness of thy iniquity, and because thy sins were increased, that I have done these things unto thee: Jer 30:16 yet surely all they, &c. “The Chaldeans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Edomites, and others, who have afflicted, oppressed, and persecuted you, shall be devoured and extirpated, while you shall be re-established.” The Assyrians, who opposed Israel and Judah, were so destroyed by the Babylonians and Medes, that mention is no more made of their empire. The monarchy of the Chaldeans was overthrown by the Persians, and never recovered itself. The empire of the Egyptians and Persians was destroyed by Alexander. But the Jewish people, who appeared as it were extinct, and annihilated in their dispersion, re-appeared on a sudden, and sprung again as it were from their own ashes, to become as numerous and as powerful as ever. The prophets frequently denounce against these nations the menaces which we read here. See chap. Jer 25:14. Isa 14:2; Isa 49:19. Zephaniah 2 and Calmet.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Jer 30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow [is] incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: [because] thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
Ver. 15. Why criest thou for thine affliction? ] And not rather for thy sins? cry not perii, I have died, but peccavi; I have sinned, not, I am undone; but, I have done very foolishly. See Lam 3:39-40 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Why: Jer 15:18, Jos 9:10, Jos 9:11, Lam 3:39, Mic 7:9
thy sorrow: Jer 30:12, Jer 30:17, Jer 46:11, Job 34:6, Job 34:29, Isa 30:13, Isa 30:14, Hos 5:12, Hos 5:13, Mic 1:9, Mal 4:1, Mal 4:2
for the: Jer 30:14, Jer 2:19, Jer 2:28-30, Jer 5:6-9, Jer 5:25-31, Jer 6:6, Jer 6:7, Jer 6:13, Jer 7:8-11, Jer 9:1-9, Jer 11:13, Jer 32:30-35, 2Ch 36:14-17, Ezr 9:6, Ezr 9:7, Ezr 9:13, Neh 9:26-36, Isa 1:4, Isa 1:5, Isa 1:21-24, Isa 5:2, Isa 59:1-4, Isa 59:12-15, Lam 1:5, Lam 4:13, Lam 5:16, Lam 5:17, Eze 16:1-63, Eze 20:1-49, Eze 22:1 -Eze 23:49, Zep 3:1-5
Reciprocal: Jer 3:21 – A voice Jer 14:17 – with a very
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 30:15. Why criest thou lias the effect of telling the people there was no use to make their complaint with the expectation of avoiding the captivity. God was punishing them by the hand of this cruel agency (the Babylonians) in order to bring about their cure from the terrible disorder of idolatry.