The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 18:12

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

And they said; rather, But they go on saying (comp. Ezekiel 33:17, Ezekiel 33:20). There is no hope. The rendering may be easily misunderstood. The speakers are not, as we might suppose, despondent about their state and prospects, but they seek to check the troublesome preacher by the warning that he has no chance of success (so Jeremiah 2:25).

Imagination; rather, stubbornness (as constantly).

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