Like the heath - Or, Like a destitute man. See the marginal reference note.

Be like the heath in the wilderness. —Here, as in Jeremiah 17:6, the stunted solitary shrub in the desert is taken as the…

Here Jeremiah uses another figure, that weeping would be heard everywhere in the ascent to Luhith. It is probable, and it appears from the Prophet’…

Flee, save your lives These are either the words of the Moabites, their cry of destruction mentioned in the latter part o…