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Hasten — Rather, I watch over my word to perform it.

I will hasten. —The Hebrew, by using a participle formed from the same root (shôkêd), presents …

The Chaldeans and the Babylonians were like a great cauldron, boiling and seething, sending forth smoke and steam over the nations, and ready to sc…

God confirms in this passage what He had previously said of the power of His word. These two verses, then, are to be taken as explanatory, for no n…

Then said the Lord unto me, you have well seen
The thing seen is a very proper emblem of what I am about to do, and …

God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond tree, which blooms earlier in the spring than any o…

1. Here, the prophet identifies the subject matter he was specifically appointed to prophesy about: the destruction of Jerusalem and the cap…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes