The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 4:12

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

Even a full wind from those places. The passage is obscure, but this is a very possible rendering. "Full," equivalent to "violent;" "those (places)," equivalent to the bare hills spoken of in Jeremiah 4:11.

Keil and Payne Smith, however, render, "a fuller wind than those," i.e. a more violent wind than those which serve for winnowing the corn; while Hitzig (see on Jeremiah 4:11) supposes "from those" to mean the persons described in Jeremiah 4:11 as "the daughter of my people."

Unto me; or perhaps for me, at my beck and call. Now also will I, etc. We must supply the other term of the antithesis from the context: "As they have sinned against me, so will I also now hold a court of justice upon them" (see on Jeremiah 1:16).

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