Earnest as the preceding expostulation was, Jeremiah sees that it has produced no effect. He therefore utters his last warning, and with this last …

Hear the word of the Lord ... —The appeal to the experience of the past is followed by a prediction of the future, addressed to the wives …

Here he more clearly expresses what he had said in the last verse: that none of the Jews would remain alive in Egypt. He now points out the manner,…

Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good , &c.] To bring the evil of punishment upon them, the particula…

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…