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

None shall fray them away. —No picture could be more appalling in its horrors—streets and valleys filled with the bodies …

Jeremiah threatens them with something more severe than death itself — that God would impress the marks of His wrath even on their dead bodies. It …

And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the ea…

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.