The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 10:18

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

I will sling out; a forcible image, to express the violence of the expulsion; comp. Isaiah 22:17, Isaiah 22:18 (Isaiah 22:17 needs correcting). At this once; rather, at this time (comp. Jeremiah 16:21).

Invasion was no novelty to the Jews, but had hitherto merely produced loss of goods rather than of personal liberty. That they may find it so; better, that they may feel it. Others supply as. the subject "Jehovah," comparing Psalms 32:6, "In a time of finding.

Jeremiah himself says, "Ye shall seek me, and shall find, when ye shall search for me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13 and Deuteronomy 4:29). Still, these passages are hardly quite parallel, as the object of the verb can be easily supplied from the connection.

The Vulgate apparently reads the text with different vowels, for it renders ut inveniantur; the Septuagint has "that thy stroke may be found."

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