A message from God to the effect that the calamity would be so overwhelming as to cause perpetual weeping; it is set before the people through the …

You shall say this word. —Though not in form a prediction, no words could express more emphatically the terrible nature o…

So God told Jeremiah that he could go and tell the people that he would weep continually for them. The faithful and sympathetic prophet was allowed…

God shows here again how slow, indeed, how dull the people were, whom no threats could persuade to return to a right mind. Therefore, when they dar…

Therefore you shall say this word unto them
Instead of praying for the people, the prophet has a doleful lamentation…

Jeremiah acknowledged his own sins, and those of the people, but pleaded with the Lord to remember his covenant. In their distress none of the idol…

1. Here, he takes up his argument from the predictions of the prophets.

1. He gives the intercession of the prophet: a, a, a