Jeremiah 30:5

For thus saith the Lord,.... Yet what follows are the words of others; wherefore some supply it, "for thus saith the Lord, the nations shall say" (p); so Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it as what the…

Better, as in the margin. The prophet places his hearers in the center of Babylon, and describes it as convulsed with terror as the armies of Cyrus draw near. The voice of trembling is the war-cry of…

Here, I. Jeremiah is directed to write what God had spoken to him, which perhaps refers to all the foregoing prophecies. He must write them and publish them, in hopes that those who had not profited…

See introd. note to section. For a parallel in the character of the description in Jer 30:5-11, Dr. compares Isa 13:6-15 (the overthrow of Babylon) followed by Isa 14:1 f. (the deliverance of Israel);…