Thomas Aquinas Commentary Jeremiah 6:11-12

"Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days. And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah." — Jeremiah 6:11-12 (ASV)

Here, he threatens them with the scourge of destruction.

1. He shows them his zeal for justice: I am filled with the fury of the Lord, with a fiery zeal for the justice of the Lord. By my zeal was he stirred up against them, that I should not destroy them in my zeal (Numbers 25:11).
2. He gives the enemy the command to destroy: abundantly pour it out, O Chaldean, wrath,Here, Thomas Aquinas seems to interchange iram, “wrath,” with furorem, “fury,” which makes sense, given the quotation from Sirach and the commentary of Jerome. Cf. Jerome, In Hieremiam 1.84. that is, your abundant wrath, without, in the streets and fields. Stir up your fury and pour forth your wrath . Upon the child—let none be spared for his age.
3. He speaks of the fulfillment of the command, both with regard to persons and with regard to possessions. The man with the woman, his wife. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners (Lamentations 5:2).