Jeremía 10:24

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24 Refsa oss, Drottinn, en þó í hófi, ekki í reiði þinni, til þess að þú gjörir ekki út af við oss.

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correct: Jeremiah 30:11, Psalms 6:1, Psalms 38:1, Habakkuk 3:2

lest: Job 6:18, Isaiah 40:23, Isaiah 41:11, Isaiah 41:12

bring me to nothing: Heb. diminish me

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 12:8 - that they may 2 Chronicles 20:1 - came against Isaiah 27:8 - measure Isaiah 28:27 - the fitches Isaiah 30:18 - for the Lord Isaiah 57:16 - I will not Isaiah 64:9 - wroth Jeremiah 46:28 - correct Ezekiel 5:11 - will I Ezekiel 34:16 - I will feed Philippians 2:27 - but on Hebrews 12:6 - whom Revelation 3:19 - many

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment,.... The prophet here represents the body of the Jewish nation, especially the godly among them; he considers the troubles coming upon the nation as a correction and chastisement of the Lord; he does not refuse it, or desire it might not come upon them; he knew the chastisements of a father are for good; he only entreats it might be "with judgment"; not in strict justice, as his and the sins of his people deserved, then they would not be able to bear it; but in measure and moderation, with a mixture of mercy and tenderness in it; and in a distinguishing manner, so as to make a difference between his own people and others, in the correction of them; see Ezekiel 34:16:

not in thine anger; in vindictive wrath, and hot displeasure, which is elsewhere deprecated by the saints, Psalms 6:1:

lest thou bring me to nothing; or "lessen me" e, or "make me little"; or make us few, as the Arabic version; or bring to a small number, as the Syriac; and so to utter ruin.

e פן תמעטני "ne imminuas me", Munster, Calvin, Cocceius; "ne diminuere facias me", Pagninus, Montanus; "ne paucum reddas me", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy.

Jeremiah 10:19

Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable.

A grief - Or, “my grief.”

Jeremiah 10:20

tabernacle - i. e., “tent.” Jerusalem laments that her tent is plundered and her children carried into exile, and so “are not,” are dead Matthew 2:18, either absolutely, or dead to her in the remote land of their captivity. They can aid the widowed mother no longer in pitching her tent, or in hanging up the curtains round about it.

Jeremiah 10:21

Therefore they shall not prosper - Rather, “therefore they have not governed wisely.” “The pastors,” i. e., the kings and rulers Jeremiah 2:8, having sunk to the condition of barbarous and untutored men, could not govern wisely.

Jeremiah 10:22

The “great commotion” is the confused noise of the army on its march (see Jeremiah 8:16).

Dragons - i. e., jackals; see the marginal reference.

Jeremiah 10:23

At the rumour of the enemy’s approach Jeremiah utters in the name of the nation a supplication appropriate to men overtaken by the divine justice.

Jeremiah 10:24

With judgment - In Jeremiah 30:11; Jeremiah 46:28, the word “judgment” (with a different preposition) is rendered “in measure.” The contrast therefore is between punishment inflicted in anger, and that inflicted as a duty of justice, of which the object is the criminal’s reformation. Jeremiah prays that God would punish Jacob so far only as would bring him to true repentance, but that he would pour forth his anger upon the pagan, as upon that which opposes itself to God Jeremiah 10:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:24. Correct me, but with judgment — Let not the punishment be to the uttermost of the demerit of the offence; else we shall be brought to nothing-totally and irrecoverably ruined.