Jeremías 20:8

8 Cada vez que hablo, es para gritar:«¡Violencia! ¡Violencia!»Por eso la palabra del SEÑORno deja de ser para míun oprobio y una burla.

Jeremías 20:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 20:8

For since I spake, I cried out
Or, "when I speak, I cry" {a}; 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" it ^F2, for a different word is here used; that is, he publicly declared the rapine and oppression they were guilty of, inveighed against it, and reproved them for it; and foretold the violence of the enemy, and the spoil that he should make of them, when he should come upon them, even the king of Babylon; as well as cried out and complained of the injurious treatment he himself met with from them; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a
derision daily;
which is a reason either why he cried with grief and sorrow; or why he cried violence and spoil, ruin and destruction: or, "though the word of the Lord was" ^F3, &c; yet he went on publishing and proclaiming it: or, "surely the word of the Lord was made a reproach" ^F4, &c; either because of the matter of it, it not being believed, or the manner in which it was delivered; or because it was not immediately fulfilled.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (qeza rbda ydm) "quum loquor exclamavi, i.e. loquor exclamans", Gataker.
F2 (arqa) "clamo", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius; "proclamo", Piscator.
F3 (rbd hyh yk) "quamvis".
F4 "Verum, verbum Domini", so some in Vatablus; "utique", De Dieu, Gataker.

Jeremías 20:8 In-Context

6 Y tú, Pasur, irás al cautiverio de Babilonia junto con toda tu familia. Allí morirás, y allí serás enterrado, con todos tus amigos, a quienes les profetizabas mentiras”».

7 ¡Me sedujiste, SEÑOR,y yo me dejé seducir!Fuiste más fuerte que yo,y me venciste.Todo el mundo se burla de mí;se ríen de mí todo el tiempo.

8 Cada vez que hablo, es para gritar:«¡Violencia! ¡Violencia!»Por eso la palabra del SEÑORno deja de ser para míun oprobio y una burla.

9 Si digo: «No me acordaré más de él,ni hablaré más en su nombre»,entonces su palabra en mi interiorse vuelve un fuego ardienteque me cala hasta los huesos.He hecho todo lo posible por contenerla,pero ya no puedo más.

10 Escucho a muchos decir con sorna:«¡Hay terror por todas partes!»y hasta agregan: «¡Denúncienlo!¡Vamos a denunciarlo!»Aun mis mejores amigosesperan que tropiece.También dicen: «Quizá lo podamos seducir.Entonces lo venceremosy nos vengaremos de él».