The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 8:3

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

Which remain. The words are certainly to be omitted in the second place where they occur. In the Hebrew they stand after in all the places, and the word for "places" is feminine, whereas the participle, "the remaining," is masculine. The Septuagint and Peshito have nothing corresponding. There is a clerical error in the Hebrew.

Verses 8:4-9:1

The incorrigible wickedness of the people, and the awfulness of the judgment.

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