These two verses, by promising a deliverance greater than that from Egypt, implied also a chastisement more terrible than the bondage in the iron f…

Behold, the days come ... — Judgment and mercy are tempered in the promise. Here the former is predominant. Afterwards, i…

Jeremiah seems here to promise a return to the Jews; and so the passage is commonly interpreted, as though a consolation is inserted, in which the …

But the Lord liveth Or they shall swear by the living Lord; or declare his power, as the Targum: "that brought up the chi…

The restoration from the Babylonian captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, an…

Here, he gives the cause of the previously mentioned punishment.

First, he poses the question: why has the LORD spoken all this great…