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The Shock of Total Desolation
Commentators stress that this prophecy describes a complete and universal catastrophe. God declares that Jerusalem, once a fortified and bustling capital, will be reduced to rubble and become a habitat for wild animals. This judgment extends to all the cities of Judah, leaving them desolate and without inhabitants, a shocking message for its original audience.
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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 9:11
19th Century
Bishop
A den of dragons. —A better translation, used here and in Jeremiah 10:22 and Isaiah 13:22, is jackals. The underlying wor…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 9:11
19th Century
Preacher
Jeremiah had to live to see all this. The thought of it opened the floodgates of his tears, and made him wish that all the clouds and seas and rain…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 9:11
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet comes now to Jerusalem and the neighboring cities. He said before that ruin would reach the mountains and the farthest recesses; but he…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 9:11
17th Century
Pastor
And I will make Jerusalem heaps
That is, the walls and houses of it shall be thrown down, and become heaps of stones…
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…