Literally, "Nebuchadnezzar ... has devoured us, has crushed us, he has set us aside as an empty vessel, he has swallowed us like a crocodile, h…

The violence done to me and to my flesh ... —The imagery of the “dragon” or “crocodile” is continued. The “female inh…

Jeremiah continues with the same subject; for, after showing that the calamities of the people were not unknown to God, he now indirectly exhorts t…

The violence done to me, and to my flesh, [be] upon Babylon , &c.] That is, let the injuries done to Zion and her childre…

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…