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From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…

Shall I not visit ...? —The previous use of the same warning in Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 5:29 gives these words …

Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (Jeremiah 9:9)…

We have already encountered this verse; it will therefore be enough to briefly refer to what it contains. God shows here, that unless he denied him…

Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord
The Targum adds,

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…

1. Here, the author speaks of the wretched condition of the people regarding their punishment.
He first speaks about the sentence, an…
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