Jeremiah 7:15

And I will cast you out of my sight,.... Or, "from before my face", or "faces" (n); out of the land of Judea, and cause them to go into captivity; and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"I will cause you…

The whole seed of Ephraim - i. e., the whole of the nine northern tribes. Their casting out was a plain proof that the possession of the symbols of God’s presence does not secure a Church or nation…

These verses begin another sermon, which is continued in this and the two following chapters, much to the same effect with those before, to reason them to repentance. Observe,

I. The orders given to…

I will cast you out of my sight Observe that exile as the punishment is already foreshadowed, while in the latter words we may trace an allusion to the popular feeling (cp. Jdg 11:24; 1Sa 26:19) that…