Many days — The seventy years’ captivity.

After many days. — Here again the interval is undefined, but it must have been long enough (we may conjecture, perhaps, s…

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…

And it came to pass after many days

When the girdle had lain long in the hole, by the side of Euphrates; this deno…

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…