The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 6:21

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

I will lay stumbling-blocks, etc, Of the regenerate Israel of the future it is prophesied (Isaiah 54:15) that his enemies shall "fall upon him [or, 'by reason of him']." Of the unregenerate Israel of the present, that he shall "fall" (i.

e. come to ruin) upon the "stumbling-blocks" presented, not without God's appointment, by the terrible northern invader.

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