Speak, Thus saith the Lord. — The abrupt opening indicates a new prediction, coming to him unbidden, which he is constrai…

So dreadful was the devastation caused by these Chaldeans because of the people's sin, that dead bodies lay like heaps of dung that a farmer scatte…

Although Jeremiah continues the same subject, he nevertheless introduces a preface—that he had been commanded to declare what he says here; for bec…

Speak, thus says the Lord. These are the words of the Lord to Jeremiah, to go on with his prophecy in his name; so the Targum, "pro…

In Zion, the voice of joy and praise used to be heard while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound—it is now the voice of lame…

1. Here, he speaks of their punishment with regard to the bodies themselves which remained unburied: as grass, which is neglecte…