The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 49:17

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

A desolation; rather, an astonishment. The word is from the same root as the following verb. The phrase is characteristic of Jeremiah, who has no scruple in repeating a forcible expression, and so enforcing an important truth (comp.

Jeremiah 25:11, Jeremiah 25:38; Jeremiah 1:1-19 :23; Jeremiah 51:43). What so "astonishing" as the reverses of once flourishing kingdoms! For the Bible knows nothing of the "necessity" of the decay and death of nations.

The "covenant" which Jehovah offers contains the pledge of indestructibility. Everyone that goeth by it, etc. Another self-reminiscence (see Jeremiah 19:8).

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