Out of the north ...- The caldron represents the great military empires upon the Euphrates. In Hezekiah’s time, Nineveh was at thei…

Out of the north an evil. —Literally, the evil, long foretold, as in Micah 3:12, and elsewhere, and long expected.

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…

Jeremiah now begins to address the people to whom he was sent as a Prophet. He has until now spoken of his calling, so that the authority of his do…

Then the Lord said to me
Explaining the above vision: out of the north an evil shall break forth upon al…

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…

Here, the author describes the destruction of Jerusalem itself.