But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
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Gill's Exposition
Say unto the king, and to the queen,.... Jehoiachin, and his mother Nehushta, as it is generally interpreted by the Jewish commentators, and others; who, with many princes and officers, were carried…
Barnes' Notes
The Lord’s flock - The people carried away captive with Jeconiah formed the Jewish Church, as we are expressly told, whereas Zedekiah and the people of Jerusalem possessed only the externals of the…
Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a figure, to make it the more taken notice of and the more affecting…
Cambridge Bible
the Lord's flock As the rulers are called elsewhere (Jer 2:8 mg., Jer 3:15; Jer 6:3) shepherds (pastors), so the ruled are the flock. Cp. Psa 80:1, and so Psa 74:1; Psa 77:20; Psa 78:52; Psa 79:13;…
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