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A Wind of Destruction
Commentators explain that the "full wind" is not a gentle breeze for winnowing grain but a destructive tempest. Unlike a farmer's wind that separates chaff from wheat, this wind symbolizes a judgment so severe it sweeps away everything, signifying total devastation rather than corrective cleansing.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 4:12
18th Century
Theologian
Or, as in the margin; that is, a stronger, more impetuous wind than those winds that serve to fan and cleanse the grain.
To me - Rath…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 4:12
19th Century
Bishop
A full wind from those places. —Better, a wind fuller than those, or, fuller than for this ...<…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 4:11–12
19th Century
Preacher
What an awful line that is. Now also will I give sentence against them. They had been on their trial. They are found guilty.
They w…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 4:11–12
16th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah proceeds with the same prediction: he says that a terrible wind was coming, which would not only disperse or clear a…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 4:12
17th Century
Pastor
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Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 4:5–18
17th Century
Minister
The fierce conqueror of the neighboring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by fal…