Let me see your vengeance on them. —The prayer, like that of the so-called vindictive Psalms (Psalms 69 and P…

Here the Prophet, after having found that the impiety of the people was so great that he was speaking to the deaf, turns his address to God. O …

But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously This is the prophet's appeal to God, as the Judge of the whole earth, who …

The prophet Jeremiah tells us much about himself; the times he lived in were very troublesome. Those of his own city plotted how they might cause h…

Here, the author shows how they transgre ed by sinning against the prophet himself. What is said literally suits Jeremiah, who came to be hated by …