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

Jeremiah 17:6: Like the…

Like the heath in the desert. — The word translated as heath is, literally, bare or naked, and for this…

Oh, the blessedness of confidence in God! You see it here set out in contrast with the misery of trusting in men. Drought comes even to this tree, …

The Prophet, I have no doubt, prefixed this sentence to many of his discourses, for it was necessary to repeat it often, as the Jews were so refrac…

For he shall be like the heath in the desert
The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "myrice": and so the Latin interp…

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. Here, the prophet explicitly shows the stubbornness of the people, which is the cause of their rejection. From this, he first shows their…