Yea. —Better, For, as the Hebrew is usually translated. What follows gives the reason for the terror which has come upon …

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…

Jeremiah now turns to animals. He previously said that men would be afflicted by thirst, and then that the ground would become so dry that farmers …

Yea, the hind also calved in the field
Or brought forth her young in the field; of which see (Job 39:1–4)…

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…