Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths , to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
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Gill's Exposition
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy,.... As the east wind, which is generally strong and boisterous, drives the chaff and stubble, and anything that is light, before it, and…
Barnes' Notes
Because - “For.” Jeremiah returns to, and continues the words of, Jer 18:13. Vanity - A word meaning “falsehood,” which signifies that the worship of idols is not merely useless but injurious. They…
These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state.
I. God was now speaking concerning them…
Cambridge Bible
For This continues the thought of the 13th v., Jer 18:18 being parenthetic.
vanity lit. unreality, meaning idols, but a different word from that used in Jer 2:5, where see notes. Here the sense is…
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