Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 6:8

"Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited." — Jeremiah 6:8 (ASV)

Be thou instructed. —Better, Be thou corrected, or, chastened. Compare to Psalms 2:10; Leviticus 26:23 (where we have “reformed”); and Proverbs 29:19.

Lest my soul. —As in Jeremiah 4:19, the Hebrew formula for emphasized personality. The word for “depart” may be better rendered tear itself away.