Jeremiah 4:19 (WEB)
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Fathers and councils · 3
Theodoret of Cyrus
“I am pained at my very heart, my heart maketh a noise in me,” and to put away despondency’s great cloud by the drops from my eyes, I have recourse to founts of tears.” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 19
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Well then, let these spies bear with us, moved as we are with fatherly compassion, and as holy Jeremiah says, torn in our hearts; let them bear with us so far as not to give a savage reception to our discourse upon this subject; and let them, if indeed they can, restrain their tongues for…” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 19.
Read the whole comment“…it all possible cleansing, and to make it more spare, that it may receive the Word of God at the very heart, and grieve honourably over the sins of Israel.” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 19.
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