Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 9:17-22
Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they foreseen the greatness of the calamities coming upon them. Death entering into the windows, became an affliction, light, and patiently to be borne, as it related to the present life, compared to what the Prophet described, of the miseries at the siege, and in the captivity. See Lamentations 4:0 throughout. read more
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 9:8-16
It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among them are called upon to consider; and the wormwood and gall given them are, that from the bitterness they find in the effects of sin, they may be brought to recollect the sweet dispensations of the Lord. Hosea 2:6-7 ; Luke 15:14-19 . read more