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Say not, I am a child; do not plead excuses.
Thou shalt go: this is God’s answer to Jeremiah, in respect of his sense of his own inability. This may be by way of command, and then it is a check to his timorousness; Thou shalt go, therefore draw not back. Or by way of promise, and then it is a satisfactory answer to his excuse, as both proceeded from a sense of his own insufficiency: q.d. Fear not, I will make thee eloquent and courageous.
To all: this relates either to persons or things.
To all, i.e. to all persons to whom I shall send thee; thou shalt balk none: see Rev_10:11. Or,
upon all, so is the Hebrew; and then it is, Thou shalt go upon all errands and messages that I shall send thee. See Isa_55:11 Act_26:16.