Jeremiah 20

Jeremiah 20:2

Justifieth - God will clear up my righteousness, and shew by many and mighty signs and wonders, that I lived and died his faithful servant. Let him come - l am conscious of mine own innocency, and I know that God will give sentence for me.

Jeremiah 20:3

They - Mine accusers and enemies. The moth - Shall be cut off and consumed by a secret curse.

Jeremiah 20:4

The voice - Of Christ, who is called God’s servant, by way of eminency and to intimate that though he was God, yet he would take upon himself the form of a servant. In darkness - Not in sin, but in misery, that lives in a disconsolate and calamitous condition. No light - No comfort. Trust - Let him fix his faith and hope in the mercy, and faithfulness, of the Lord, declared in his word, and in his interest in God, who by the mediation of this servant is reconciled to him and made his God.

Jeremiah 20:5

All ye - You that reject the light which God hath set up, and seek for comfort and safety, by your own inventions. Walk - Use your utmost endeavours to get comfort from these devices. This - This shall be the fruit of all, you shall receive nothing but vexation and misery.

Jeremiah 20:7

Look - Consider the state of Abraham and Sarah, from whom all of you sprang.

Jeremiah 20:8

Him alone - To follow me to an unknown land: him only of all his kindred. Increased - Into a vast multitude, when his condition was desperate in the eye of reason. And therefore God can as easily raise his church when they are in the most forlorn condition.

Jeremiah 20:9

Therefore - For the sake of Abraham, and of that covenant which I made with him. Garden - Flourishing as the garden of Eden.

Jeremiah 20:10

My people - Ye Jews, whom I chose to be my peculiar people. A law - A new law, even the doctrine of the gospel. Judgment - Judgment is here the same thing with law, the word of God, or the evangelical doctrine, of which he saith that he will make it to rest, that is settle and establish it. The people - People of all nations.

Jeremiah 20:11

My righteousness - My salvation, the redemption of all my people, Jews and Gentiles, which is the effect of his righteousness, his justice, faithfulness, or mercy. Is gone - Shall shortly go forth. Judge - Shall subdue the Gentiles to my authority, and rule them by my word and spirit. Isles - The remote countries shall expect this salvation from me, and from me only.

Jeremiah 20:12

The heavens - The heavens and earth shall pass away, in regard of their present state, and properties, and use, as smoak is said to vanish, tho’ the substance of it be not destroyed.

Jeremiah 20:13

Know - That love and practise it.

Jeremiah 20:14

Like wool - Like a woollen garment, which is sooner corrupted by moths or such creatures, than linen.

Jeremiah 20:15

Put on - Put forth thy strength. Rahab - Egypt, from its pride or strength. The dragon - Pharaoh so called, Psalms 74:13.

Jeremiah 20:17

Therefore - This verse contains an answer to the prophet’s prayer. I did these great things, and I will do the like again. Joy - Like a crown of glory.