Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered…

High places. —Not the same word as in Jeremiah 7:29, but bamoth, as in the “high places” of Baal in Numbers 22:41;[Refere…

Jeremiah in this verse also inveighs against those superstitions by which the Jews had corrupted the true and pure worship of God. He says that the…

And they have built the high places of Tophet
Where was the idol Moloch; and which place had its name, as Jarchi thinks, from …

As a token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.

The heart is t…

Here, he threatens them with punishment.

1. He prefigures it with a sign: cut off your hair. As in Ezekiel 5:2, you shal…