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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 18:21 - 18:21
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pour out their blood by the force of the sword - literally, “by the hands of the sword.” So Eze 35:5. Maurer with Jerome translates, “deliver them over to the power of the sword.” But compare Psa 63:10, Margin; Isa 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 Jer 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.