Little ones – mean ones, the common people. The word is unique to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 48:4).

The pits – that is, ta…

Their little ones. —Not their children, but their menial servants. The word is peculiar to Jeremiah, and occurs only here and in J…

The distress in the land was so great that the city gates, where, in more prosperous times, business transactions took place, and meetings of the p…

The Prophet suggests in these words that the scarcity would be so great as to appear to be a manifest and remarkable evidence of God’s vengeance. F…

And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters ,
&c.] To places where water used to be; to the pools, th…

The people were in tears. But it was the cry of their trouble and their sin, rather than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water…

1. Here, the prophet begins to intercede with his prayer to God on their behalf, so that they might obtain mercy in some way, at least after…