UYeremiya 4:19

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

19 Izibilini zam, izibilini zam! Ndiyazibhijabhija iingontsi zentliziyo yam! Iyaxokozela intliziyo yam, andinakuthi tu! Kuba usivile isandi sesigodlo, mphefumlo wam, ukuhlatywa komkhosi wemfazwe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

My bowels: Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 13:17, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 14:18, Jeremiah 23:9, Jeremiah 48:31, Jeremiah 48:32, Psalms 119:53, Psalms 119:136, Isaiah 15:5, Isaiah 16:11, Isaiah 21:3, Isaiah 22:4, Lamentations 1:16, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 3:48-51, Daniel 7:15, Daniel 7:28, Daniel 8:27, Habakkuk 3:16, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:42, Romans 9:2, Romans 9:3, Romans 10:1, Galatians 4:19

my very: Heb. the walls of my

O my: Genesis 49:6, Judges 5:21, Psalms 16:2, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:6, Psalms 103:1, Psalms 116:7, Psalms 146:1

sound: Jeremiah 4:5, Jeremiah 4:21, Amos 3:6, Zephaniah 1:15, Zephaniah 1:16

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:9 - then ye shall 2 Kings 4:19 - My head 2 Kings 8:11 - wept Esther 8:6 - For how Job 30:27 - General Jeremiah 6:1 - blow Jeremiah 6:24 - We have Jeremiah 8:21 - the hurt Jeremiah 10:19 - Woe Jeremiah 17:16 - neither Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 20:8 - I cried Jeremiah 20:16 - let him Jeremiah 42:14 - nor hear Jeremiah 48:36 - mine heart Jeremiah 49:2 - that I will Jeremiah 50:22 - General Lamentations 1:13 - desolate Lamentations 1:20 - my bowels Lamentations 3:51 - eye Ezekiel 21:6 - Sigh Daniel 4:19 - was astonied Micah 1:8 - I will wail Zephaniah 1:10 - the noise Matthew 24:6 - ye shall hear Mark 13:7 - when Luke 21:9 - when Acts 4:20 - we cannot

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My bowels, my bowels,.... These are either the words of the people, unto whose heart the calamity reached, as in the preceding verse; or rather of the prophet, who either, from a sympathizing heart, expresses himself in this manner; or puts on an appearance of mourning and distress, in order to awaken his people to a sense of their condition. The repetition of the word is after the manner of persons in pain and uneasiness, as, "my head, my head", 2 Kings 4:19:

I am pained at my very heart; as a woman in labour. In the Hebrew text it is, "as the walls of my heart" e; meaning either his bowels, as before; or the "praecordia", the parts about the heart, which are as walls unto it; his grief had reached these walls, and was penetrating through them to his heart, and there was danger of breaking that:

my heart makes a noise in me; palpitates, beats and throbs, being filled with fears and dread, with sorrow and concern, at what was coming on; it represents an aching heart, all in disorder and confusion:

I cannot hold my peace; or be silent; must speak, and vent grief:

because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war; Kimchi observes, he does not say "my ears", but "my soul"; for as yet he had not heard with his ears the sound of the trumpet; for the enemy was not yet come, but his soul heard by prophecy: here is a Keri and a Cetib, a reading and a writing; it is written שמעתי, "I have heard"; it is read שמעת, "thou hast heard", which is followed by the Targum: the sense is the same, it is the hearing of the soul. The prophet, by these expressions, represents the destruction as very near, very certain, and very distressing. The trumpet was sounded on different accounts, as Isidore f observes; sometimes to begin a battle; sometimes to pursue those that fled; and sometimes for a retreat.

e קירות לבי "parietes cordis mei", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius. f Orignum l. 18. c. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verse is best translated as a series of ejaculations, in which the people express their grief at the ravages committed by the enemy:

“My bowels! My bowels!” I writhe in pain!

The walls of my heart! “My heart” moans for me!

I cannot keep silence!

For “thou hast heard, O my soul,” the trumpet’s voice!

“The alarm of war!”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:19. My bowels — From this to the twenty-ninth verse the prophet describes the ruin of Jerusalem and the desolation of Judea by the Chaldeans in language and imagery scarcely paralleled in the whole Bible. At the sight of misery the bowels are first affected; pain is next felt by a sort of stricture in the pericardium; and then, the heart becoming strongly affected by irregular palpitations, a gush of tears, accompanied with wailings, is the issue. - "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart, (the walls of my heart;) my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace." Here is nature, and fact also.