Be not proud - Both the symbols were of a nature very humiliating to the national self-respect.

Be not proud.—With special reference to the besetting sin of Judah, as described in Jeremiah 13:9; perhaps also to the ch…

The Prophet shows here more fully what we have stated—that the temperament of those with whom he had to deal was so refractory that it was necessar…

Hear you, and give ear
Both to what goes before, and what follows after.

The words doubled denote the closest…

As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the people's sins made them vessels of wrath, fitted for God's judgments, with which they would be fi…

Here, he gives the application of the allegory, and on this topic, he makes two points.

1. First, he applies the allegory to the puni…