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 …

He finally adds that a few would escape. He had said before (Jeremiah 44:14) that there would be none, but added at the end of the vers…

Yet a small number that shall escape the sword
The sword of the king of Babylon, and the other judgments, and which …

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…