Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,.... That is, the false prophets and lying priests, who pretended to be physicians, and to heal the sickly and distempered state of…

Healed - Rather, “tried to heal.” Of the daughter - These words are omitted by a majority of manuscripts, but found in most of the versions. Slightly - literally, “according to,” i. e., as if it were,…

The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line.

I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the…

of my people Cp. Jer 8:11; Jer 8:21, which have the daughter of. Hence it has been inserted needlessly here in mg.

lightly LXX excellently, making nothing of it. As worthless surgeons the religious…