Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"Woe is to me for my hurt"
Text: Jeremiah 10:19
JEREMIAH’S PERSONAL RESPONSE
Jeremiah shows the children of Judah how they should respond. There must be practical and personal considerations.
“Woe is me for my hurt!
My wound is severe.
But I say, ‘Truly this is an infirmity,
And I must bear it.’
My tent is plundered,
And all my cords are broken;
My children have gone from me,
And they are no more.
There is no one to pitch my tent anymore,
Or set up my curtains.”
Jeremiah 10:19-20
1. “Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is severe.”
a) Feelings of woe are felt.
b) There was also a feeling of hurt.
c) Like the hurt of a severe wound sustained,
2. “But I say, ‘Truly this is an infirmity, and I must bear it'”
a) Jeremiah refuses to lay blame on God.
b) How he felt was just his “infirmity”.
c) Somehow, he must learn to bear his feelings of pain and hurt.
3. “My tent is plundered, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me,
and they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent anymore, or set up my curtains”
a) The larger perspective.
b) Whole families would suffer terribly.
c) Those who live in tents (Bedouins):
i) Their tents are plundered.
ii) The cords (guy-lines) were broken.
iii) The tents cannot be set up if there are no cords.
d) The children
i) Each tent may house a family.
ii) The family members are all involved in the setting up of a tent.
iii) What if the children were no more (killed or abducted)?
iv) Who would set up the tents for those left behind (the old and sick)?
e) The lament taken up
“There is no one to pitch my tent anymore,
Or set up my curtains.”
Jeremiah 10:20