The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy ([Reference Jere…

The pastors. —The “shepherds,” used, as in Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 3:15, and elsewhere, of rulers generally, rather than…

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. Be…

In the first place, he assigns a cause for the dreadful devastation of which he had spoken, and that was because the shepherds were without thought…

For the pastors are become brutish
The "kings" of Judah, so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, as Jehoiakim and Zedekia…

The Jews who continued in their own land felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that …

1. Here, he outlines the communal punishment in order, because the sins of the rulers are the cause of their blindne . Their wickedne has bl…