Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 6:26

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

26. wallow . . . in ashes — ( Jeremiah 25:34 ; Micah 1:10 ). As they usually in mourning only "cast ashes on the head," wallowing in them means something more, namely, so entirely to cover one's self with ashes as to be like one who had rolled in them ( Ezekiel 27:30 ). as for an only son — ( Amos 8:10 ; Zechariah 12:10 ). lamentation —literally, "lamentation expressed by beating the breast." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-27" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-6-004

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-6-26

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological