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**streets** = out places, or outskirts.
**broad places** = market, or open places of concourse.
**if ye can find.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 18:26](../../../kjv/genesis/18/26) , &c). Points to reign of Jehoiakim rather than that of Josiah.
**I will pardon.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 18:24-32](../../../kjv/genesis/18/24-32) ). App-92 .

**the truth** = faithfulness. The same word as in [Jeremiah 5:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/1) .
**have not grieved** = have felt no pain.

**poor** = become poor, or impoverished, reduced in means. Hebrew. *dal.* See note on "poverty", [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) .
**judgment** = justice.

**altogether** = together, or with one accord.

**evenings** = deserts.
**transgressions** = revolts.
**backslidings** = apostasies.
**increased** = strong, or many.

**children** = sons.
**forsaken Me.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/15) , [Deuteronomy 32:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/21) ).
**sworn.** Compare [Jeremiah 5:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/2) .
**fed them to the full.** So in many codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate; but some codices, with five early printed editions, read "made them swear".
**committed adultery.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 20:14](../../../kjv/exodus/20/14) .[Deuteronomy 5:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/5/18); [Deuteronomy 5:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/5/18) ). The usual formula for idolatry.

**in the morning:** i.e. roaming at large.

**Shall I not visit . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.*
**My soul** = I Myself, for emphasis. Hebrew. *nephesh.* Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.*
**be avenged** = avenge herself. Compare [Jeremiah 5:29](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/29) ; [Jeremiah 9:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/9/9) .

**not a full end.** Compare [Jeremiah 5:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/18) , and [Jeremiah 4:27](../../../kjv/jeremiah/4/27) .

**the house of Israel.** See note on [Jeremiah 2:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/4) .
**the house of Judah.** See note on [Jeremiah 2:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/4) .

**belied** = acted deceitfully against. Compare [Joshua 24:27](../../../kjv/joshua/24/27) .
**evil** = calamity.

**prophets:** i.e. Jeremiah, and others with him. See one in Ch. [Jeremiah 26:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/20) .
**wind.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**the LORD God of hosts.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* the Elohim of Zebaioth. Occurs in Jeremiah only here, [Jeremiah 15:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/15/16) ; [Jeremiah 35:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/35/17) ; and [Jeremiah 49:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/49/5) .

**I will bring.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:49](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/49) ). App-92 .
**a nation:** i.e. the Chaldeans, but not yet named as such.
**ancient.** Compare [Genesis 10:10](../../../kjv/genesis/10/10) .
**understandest** = hearest. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), for what is understood. Compare [1 Corinthians 14:2](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/14/2) .

**they shall eat up.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 26:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/16) ). App-92 . Repeated three times by Figure of speech *Anaphora* , for great emphasis.
**harvest, &c.** Note the similar enumeration in [Habakkuk 3:17](../../../kjv/habakkuk/3/17) .
**impoverish** = beat down. Only again in [Malachi 1:4](../../../kjv/malachi/1/4) .
**trustedst** = confidedst. Hebrew. *batah.* App-69 .

**Wherefore . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 29:24](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/29/24) , [Deuteronomy 29:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/29/25) ).
**strange . . . strangers** = foreign . . . foreigners, or aliens.

**Declare . . . publish.** Compare [Jeremiah 4:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/4/15) .
**in the house of Jacob.** Only here, and [Amos 3:13](../../../kjv/amos/3/13) , with the Preposition "in". See note on [Jeremiah 2:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/4) .

**understanding.** Hebrew "heart".

**That giveth rain.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 11:14](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/11/14) ).
**both** = even. Some codices omit this word.
**the appointed . . . harvest.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 8:22](../../../kjv/genesis/8/22) ).

**iniquities.** Hebrew. *'avah.* App-44 .
**sins.** Hebrew. *chata'* . App-44 .
**good** = the good (singular)

**wicked.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .

**waxen fat.** Reference to Pentateuch, (the same word as in [Deuteronomy 32:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/15) ).
**the wicked** = a lawless one. Hebrew. *rasha'.* App-44 .
**the fatherless** = an orphan.
**yet they prosper:** or, that they [the fatherless] should prosper. Figure of speech *Ellipsis.* App-6 . Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 10:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/10/18) ; [Deuteronomy 24:17](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/24/17) ; [Deuteronomy 27:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/27/19) ).
**the needy** = needy ones.

**Shall I not. ?** Note the repeated Figure of speech *Erotesis* , in the form of Figure of speech *Anaphora.* App-6 .

**A wonderful** = An astounding.

**by their means.** Prophets were raised up when the priests failed in their duty. Now they had become in accord with them. Compare [Jeremiah 23:25](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/25) , [Jeremiah 23:26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/26) . [Ezekiel 13:6](../../../kjv/ezekiel/13/6) , &c.

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