Jeremiah appeals to the obedience which migratory birds render to the law of their natures. The “stork” arrives in Palestine about March 21, and af…

The stork in the heaven. —The eye of the prophet looked on nature at once with the quick observation of one who is alive to all he…

Indeed, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but m…

Here again Jeremiah condemns the shameful insensibility of the people—that they had less wisdom than birds, not endowed with reason and understandi…

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times
Of going and returning; for this is a bird of passage, as P…

What brought this ruin?

Here, the prophet shows their stubbornne and hardne in sin. For this reason, this section is distinct from everything that has come before it.