A parenthesis. As in Jeremiah 7:16, all intercession is forbidden, and for this reason: Prayer for others for the forgiveness of their sins is effe…

Therefore pray not. —The words imply, as in Jeremiah 7:16, that the prophet’s human feelings had led him to pour his soul…

So that the Jews might understand that a severe calamity was near, and that God would not be appeasable, the Prophet himself is forbidden to interc…

Therefore pray not you for this people If for a remnant among them, yet not for the body of the people; and if for their …

Evil pursues sinners, and entangles them in snares from which they cannot free themselves. Now, in their distress, their many gods and many altars …

1. Here, he threatens an inescapable punishment for incorrigible guilt.

   1. He speaks of the punishment: behold I