The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #86
86. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 20
1-3 They blaspheme the Word. (3, 15)
4 They will come among those who blaspheme and adulterate the Word. (3)
5 They will disperse all the truths and goods of the Word, (3)
6 and will thus perish with these. (3)
7-10 Lamentation over the blasphemies against the Lord, and against the Word; (3)
11-13 and the Lord's confidence during combats, that the Word is being protected. (3)
Jeremiah 20:14-18
14
Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
15
Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.
16
Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
17
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
18
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
