Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 18:21
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21. pour out their blood by the force of the sword —literally, "by the hands of the sword." So Ezekiel 35:5 . MAURER with JEROME translates, " deliver them over to the power of the sword." But compare Psalms 63:10 , Margin; Isaiah 53:12 . In this prayer he does not indulge in personal revenge, as if it were his own cause that was at stake; but he speaks under the dictation of the Spirit, ceasing to intercede, and speaking prophetically, knowing they were doomed to destruction as reprobates; for those not so, he doubtless ceased not to intercede. We are not to draw an example from this, which is a special case. put to death —or, as in Jeremiah 15:2 , "perish by the death plague " [MAURER]. men . . . young men —HORSLEY distinguishes the former as married men past middle age; the latter, the flower of unmarried youth. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-22" class="com-number"
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