Jeremiah 21:10
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
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Gill's Exposition
For I have set my face against this city,.... Or "my fury", as the Targum; their sins had provoked the eyes of his glory; he was wroth with them, and determined to cut them off; his mind was set…
By the civil message which the king sent to Jeremiah it appeared that both he and the people began to have a respect for him, which it would have been Jeremiah's policy to make some advantage of for…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
I have set my face upon this city Cp. Jer 44:11; Amo 9:4. The phrase occurs in a good sense in Jer 26:6.
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