Kinds – literally, as noted in the margin, that is, classes of things. The first is to destroy the living, the other three to mutilate and c…

Four kinds. —The sword, as the direct instrument of death, is followed by those that follow up its work: the beasts and birds of p…

Jeremiah proceeds with the same subject. He said yesterday that the people were no longer cared for by God, and so nothing remained for them but to…

And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the Lord
Or four families ^F24 , and these very devouring on…

The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The posing of this as a hypothetical situation, even if they were to stand …

1. This section presents the final and decisive rejection of the prophet’s prayer for the people.

First, the rejection of the prayer …