Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
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Gill's Exposition
Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me,.... However deep they had laid them; and however unknown they were to him; or however private and secret they might be thought to be by…
Barnes' Notes
Pour out ... sword - literally, “pour them out upon the hands of the sword, i. e., give them up to the sword.” Put to death - Rather, slain of death. The prophet’s phrase leaves it entirely indefinite…
The prophet here, as sometimes before, brings in his own affairs, but very much for instruction to us.
I. See here what are the common methods of the persecutors. We may see this in Jeremiah's…
See on Jer 17:18. Here also we may be permitted to consider the passage to be an editorial addition. Erbt retains 22 band 23 as genuine, Gi. all but "and their … battle" (Jer 18:18), while Du. and Co.…
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