A den of dragons. —A better translation, used here and in Jeremiah 10:22 and Isaiah 13:22, is jackals. The underlying wor…

Jeremiah had to live to see all this. The thought of it opened the floodgates of his tears, and made him wish that all the clouds and seas and rain…

The Prophet comes now to Jerusalem and the neighboring cities. He said before that ruin would reach the mountains and the farthest recesses; but he…

And I will make Jerusalem heaps
That is, the walls and houses of it shall be thrown down, and become heaps of stones…

Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…

Here, the prophet specifies their punishment in detail.

1. He first defines the punishment. Regarding this point, he addre es three thing…