“Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.”
Jeremiah's anguish at preaching: 'But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. "Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years."' This verse presents Jeremiah's overwhelming experience of bearing God's word: he is 'full of the wrath of the LORD' and unable to contain it. The command to 'pour it out' on all segments of society (children, young men, husbands, wives, the elderly) indicates that judgment will be universal, affecting all age groups and both genders. Theologically, this verse conveys the prophet's anguish: filled with God's word and God's wrath, he must deliver a message that assaults all social categories.
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