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Jer_20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Ver. 8. For since I spake, I cried out,] i.e., Ever since I took upon me the office of a prophet, I executed it vigorously, I cried with full mouth. {Jer_4:5 Isa_58:1}
I cried violence and spoil,] sc., Will surely befall you by the Chaldees. Or, I cried out of my misusages.
Because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision daily.] This was all the recompense I reaped of my goodwill to this perverse people, and of my pains taken among them. Few sins are more dangerous than those of casting reproaches upon God’s Word, as here; of snuffing at it; {Mal_1:13} of enviously swelling at it; {Act_13:45} of chatting at it; {Rom_9:19-20} of stumbling at it; {1Pe_2:8} of gathering odious consequences from it. {Rom_3:8}