Jeremiah 4:27

For thus hath the Lord said,.... What follows is an explanation and confirmation of the above vision the prophet had:

the whole land shall be desolate; as he had seen; it should not be manured,…

Desolate - a waste. One of the most striking points of prophecy is, that however severe. may be the judgment pronounced against Judah, there is always the reservation, that the ruin shall not be…

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…

yet will I not make a full end This clause is probably added by a later hand (so perhaps in Jer 5:10), for not only does it interrupt the metre in the original, but it also breaks the connexion…