Signs of heaven - Extraordinary appearances, such as eclipses, comets, and the like, which seemed to the pagan to portend national calamitie…

Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven. —The special reference is to the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly pro…

Among pagans, if certain stars were in conjunction, it was considered unlucky; and certain days of the week were also regarded as unlucky, just as …

Jeremiah enters here on a new subject. Though he had, no doubt, taught this truth often, I consider it distinct from what has gone before, for he b…

Thus says the Lord, learn not the way of the Heathen
Of the nations round about them, particularly the Chaldeans; me…

The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the foolishness of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to…

Here, he shows the dignity of the people, so that from this their guilt might appear more serious and their punishment more just.