Jeremiah 10:20
“My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
My tabernacle is spoiled,.... Not the temple at Jerusalem only, rather Jerusalem itself, as Kimchi; or the whole land,…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870Jeremiah 10:19-25
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Jeremiah 10:17-25
In these verses,
I. The prophet threatens, in God's name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer 10:17, Jer…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
The land is likened to a tent overthrown and injured beyond repair.
curtains See on Jer 4:20.
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