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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 22:27 - 22:27
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they - Coniah and his mother. He passes from the second person (Jer 22:26) to the third person here, to express alienation. The king is as it were put out of sight, as if unworthy of being spoken with directly.
desire - literally, “lift up their soul” (Jer 44:14; Psa 24:4; Psa 25:1). Judea was the land which they in Babylon should pine after in vain.