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

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?

Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman…

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…

Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child ?
&c.] Look into the histories of former times, inquire o…

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…