In a hole of the rock - “In a cleft of the rock.” As there are no fissured rocks in Babylonia, the place where Jeremiah hi…

Go to Euphrates. The Hebrew word Phrath is the same as that which, everywhere else in the Old Testament, is translated as…

I have said that there is here a new prophecy, for the Prophet is said to buy for himself a girdle or a belt, or, according to some, a truss or bre…

Take the girdle which you have got, which is upon your loins , and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of…

It was common for the prophets to teach by signs. And we have the explanation in Jeremiah 13:9-11.

The people of Israel had been to God as t…

Here, the prophet shows the dignity of the people based on their connection to God.

The passage is divided into two parts. The first is an a…