Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
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Gill's Exposition
Destruction upon destruction is cried;.... Or, "breach upon breach" (g); as soon as one affliction is over, another comes on; and upon the news of one calamity, tidings are brought of another, as in…
Barnes' Notes
Destruction ... - Or, breaking upon breaking Jer 4:6. The news of one breaking, one violent calamity, follows close upon another. My curtains - The curtains of the tent, put here for the tents…
The prophet is here in an agony, and cries out like one upon the rack of pain with some acute distemper, or as a woman in travail. The expressions are very pathetic and moving, enough to melt a heart…
Cambridge Bible
is cried better, one destruction(lit. breach) meeteth(followeth upon) another. The Hebrew verb is ambiguous.
curtains tent-hangings. Cp. Jer 10:20; Ca. Jer 1:5; Isa 54:2.
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