Better, as in the margin. The prophet places his hearers in the center of Babylon and describes it as convulsed with terror as the armies of Cyrus …

Thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling ... —There is a strange mingling of the divine and human elements…

And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus says the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling,…

Both Jews and Christians distort this passage, for they apply it to the time of the Messiah. When they scarcely agree on any other part of Scriptur…

For thus says the Lord
Yet what follows are the words of others; therefore some supply it, "for thus says the Lord, …

Jeremiah is to write what God had spoken to him. The very words are those that the Holy Spirit teaches. These are the words God ordered to be writt…

1. Here, he describes the stages of the liberation.

First, he promises them liberation from bondage to the enemy; second, from the gre…