The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 8:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The wise men are ashamed. It is the perfect of prophetic certitude, equivalent to "the wise men shall certainly be ashamed." And why? Evidently because they have not foreseen the calamities impending ever their nation.

They have preached, "Peace, peace; when there was no peace" (Jeremiah 8:11); and hence they find themselves "taken" in the grip of a relentless power from which there is no escape. What wisdom; literally, wisdom of what?

i.e. in respect of what?

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