From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.

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

I will melt them, and try them. —The prophet, speaking in the name of Jehovah, falls back upon the imagery of Jeremiah 6:…

Do you wonder that Jeremiah wept? With such a true spirit, so tender and sympathetic, he could not bear it when man had become man's worst enemy, a…

Jeremiah, speaking in God’s name, concludes that the chastisement of which he had spoken was necessary. And what I have already said appears more c…

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts Because of this deceit and hypocrisy, and lying: behold, I will melt 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, the author speaks of the wretched condition of the people regarding their punishment.