From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.

(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…

Your habitation ... —The words may be an individualized, and therefore more emphatic, reproduction of the general warning of Jerem…

Putting forth all their critical ingenuity to get rid of God, His Word, inspiration, and the divine sacrifice, doing all they could so that they mi…

The Prophet here introduces God as the speaker, so that the Jews might know that they were not dealing with a mortal man. For they might, according…

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit
In the midst of a people of deceit, as Kimchi and Ben Molech. These are th…

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…

1. Here, he shows their obstinacy in sins that are directly against their neighbor.

First, he speaks of his own compa ion regarding t…