In the rest of the prophecy, Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin.

Jeremiah 17:6: Like the…

As the partridge sits on eggs... — Better, following the Septuagint and Vulgate, and the marginal reading of the Authoris…

The Prophet no doubt intended only to show that those who enriched themselves by unlawful means, or heaped together great wealth, would still be su…

As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not
Here seems to be another sin pointed at, as the cause of the rui…

He who puts confidence in man will be like the heath in a desert, a naked tree, a pitiful shrub, the product of barren ground, useless and worthles…

1. He touches on the second source from which the hope of immunity arose: an abundance of riches. He speaks of the confidence the wicked pla…