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

Jeremiah seals his prophecy by adding a sign which, however, was to be coincident with it. It was not then, as they say, a premonstrative sign. And…

And this [shall be] a sign unto you, says the Lord, that I will punish you in this place In Egypt, as before threatened; …

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…