For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
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Gill's Exposition
For death is come up into our windows,.... Their doors being shut, bolted, and barred, they thought themselves safe, but were not; the Chaldeans scaled their walls, broke in at the tops of their…
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jer 9:10 The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jer 6:3). So…
Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought…
Cambridge Bible
is come up Cp. Joe 2:9.
palaces See on Jer 6:5.
from without Cp. Zec 8:5.
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