Then Jeremiah said ... —The prophet makes an effective rejoinder to the assertion that the prosperity of past years had coincided …

The Prophet refutes the impious objections with which the Jews had attempted to subvert his doctrine and make it contemptible. He then turns agains…

And because ye have burnt incense Not to Jehovah, but to the queen of heaven; which they owned they did, and determined t…

Whatever evil comes upon us, it is because we have sinned against the Lord; we should therefore stand in awe, and sin not.

Since they were d…