This verse answers the question: Cannot Judah avert this calamity by repentance? No, because her sins are too inveterate. By 'the Ethiopian' (Hebre…

Can the Ethiopian ...? —Literally, the Cushite. The meaning of the question is obvious. The evil of Judah was too deep-in…

God declares in this verse that the people were so hardened in their wickedness that there was no hope of their repentance. This is the sum of what…

Can the Ethiopian change his skin ?
&c.] Or, "the Cushite"; either, as the Arabic version, the "Abyssine", the inhab…

Here is a message sent to King Jehoiakim and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. If they ask, "Why do these things come upon us?" let t…

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…