My bowels, my bowels! —As with Jeremiah 4:13, the words may be Jeremiah’s own cry of anguish, or that of the despairing p…

The dreadful blast of war, the blood-red flag of murder, flying through the land, while the Chaldeans slaughtered right and left, young and old—we …

Some interpreters think that the Prophet is here affected by grief because he saw that his own nation would soon perish; but I do not know whether …

My bowels, my bowels
These are either the words of the people, to whose heart the calamity reached, as in the preceding verse;…

The prophet had no pleasure in delivering me ages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion.

Compared with what it was, …

1. Here, he predicts the destruction of the land.

1. First, he predicts the destruction itself.

2. Second, he desc…