Jeremiah 38:21

But if thou refuse to go forth,.... Out of Jerusalem, to the Chaldean army, and submit to them:

this is the word that the Lord hath showed me, or the thing which should certainly come to pass; the…

In the foregoing chapter we had the king in close conference with Jeremiah, and here again, though (Jer 38:5) he had given him up into the hands of his enemies; such a struggle there was in the breast…

the word viz. the picture of the women which follows. Dr. makes it to be an actual vision on the part of the prophet, and so renders "all the women … were brought forth … while they said, etc."