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No Place to Hide
Commentators explain that Jeremiah's lament for the "mountains" and "pastures" is significant. These were typically remote areas of refuge during an invasion. By highlighting their destruction, the prophet shows the coming judgment will be so total and devastating that there will be absolutely no safe place to flee. The desolation will cover every corner of the land, leaving it utterly empty.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 9:10–22
18th Century
Theologian
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length.
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 9:10
19th Century
Bishop
For the mountains ... —The Hebrew preposition means both “upon” and “on account of,” and probably both meanings were impl…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 9:10
19th Century
Preacher
The prophet pictures what the Chaldeans would do. They would not only destroy the cities, but they would even rob the hills of their cattle, and sw…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 9:10
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet had exhorted others to lament and to bewail. He now comes forward as though no one had ears to pay attention to his admonition. Since h…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 9:10
17th Century
Pastor
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing
Because of the desolation of them; because no pasture upon th…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 9:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…