The complete fulfillment of this prophecy belongs to the Christian Church. There is a close analogy between Jeremiah at the first destruction of Je…

The sword, the famine, and the pestilence. —The three forms of suffering are grouped together, as in Jeremiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 14:21. The…

He confirms the former verse—that God would then punish them with extreme rigor, by allowing the city and the inhabitants who remained to be given …

And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them. Meaning not in other lands, where they should be d…

Good and bad figs represent the Jews in captivity, and those who remain in their own land.

The prophet saw two baskets of figs set before the…

1. Here, the separation of the wicked princes from the good is spoken of through a simile.

   1. First is the explanation of the …