Jeremiah 20:7 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 20:7

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

BSB

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ASV

O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.

KJV

O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

SIX BOOKS ON JEREMIAH 4:22.2-4 (420)

The prophet says that he was deceived by the Lord because, when he heard the Lord say in the beginning, "I gave you as a prophet to the nations," and, again, "Behold, I establish you today over nations and over kingdoms, that you may uproot and destroy and overthrow and dissolve and build and plant," he believed that none of this was spoken against the people of Judea, but only against the various nations surrounding them, thus leading him to accept his prophetic mission willingly.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus our Lord Jesus, on the cross, was reviled both by priests and people; and the revilings of each had their peculiar aggravation. And what was it that thus exposed him to contempt and scorn? It was nothing but his faithful and zealous discharge of the duty of his office,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

In the rest of the chapter we have an outbreak of deep emotion, of which the first part ends in a cry of hope Jer 20:13, followed nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this the result of feelings wounded by the indignities of a public scourging and a night spent in the stocks? Or was it not the mental agony of knowing that his ministry had (as it seemed) failed?

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But Jeremiah misunderstood God's promise, which was not that he should have nothing to suffer, but that God would deliver him out of sufferings (Jer 1:19). deceived--Others translate as Margin, "Thou hast enticed" or "persuaded me," namely, to undertake the prophetic office, "and I was persuaded," that is, suffered myself to be persuaded to undertake what I find too hard for me.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
פִּתִּיתַ֤נִי	pi.ti.Ta.ni	you deceived me	H6601 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
וָֽאֶפָּ֔ת	va.'e.Pat	and I was deceived	H6601 →
חֲזַקְתַּ֖נִי	cha.zak.Ta.ni	you prevailed over me	H2388 →
וַתּוּכָ֑ל	va.tu.Khal	and you prevailed	H3201 →
הָיִ֤יתִי	ha.Yi.ti	I have become	H1961 →
לִשְׂחוֹק֙	lis.chOk	<into> a laughing stock	H7814 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַיּ֔וֹם	hai.Yom	the day	H3117 →
כֻּלֹּ֖ה	ku.Loh	all of it	H3605 →
לֹעֵ֥ג	lo.'Eg	[is] mocking	H3932 →
לִֽי׃	Li	<to> <the> me

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of…
leads to
- Psalms 39:3
  My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
- Job 32:18–20
  For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
- Acts 4:20
  For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
- 1 Corinthians 9:16–17
  Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
- Acts 17:16
  While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
Through
Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
leads to
- 2 Kings 3:15
  But now, bring me a harpist.” And while the harpist played, the hand of the LORD came upon Elisha
- Ezekiel 37:1
  The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
- Jeremiah 20:7–9
  You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah