Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 21:11

"And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah:" — Jeremiah 21:11 (ASV)

Say, Hear you the word of the Lord. —The interpolated “say” is unnecessary and tends to convey the likely incorrect impression that we are dealing with a new message rather than a continuation of the former one. The question of whether it is such a continuation has been answered in various ways by different commentators.

On the one hand, the conditional threats are said to imply an earlier stage of Jeremiah’s work than the doom, absolute and unconditional, pronounced in Jeremiah 21:1-10, and this has led some to refer the message to the earlier years of Jehoiakim. On the other hand, it is argued that the words may have the character of a last promise, and therefore a last warning.