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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 49:12 - 49:12
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(Compare Jer 25:15, Jer 25:16, Jer 25:29).
they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup - the Jews to whom, by virtue of the covenant relation, it did not belong to drink the cup. It might have been expected that they would be spared. He regards not the merits of the Jews, for they were as bad or worse than others: but the grace and adoption of God; it is just and natural (“judgment”) that God should pardon His sons sooner than aliens [Calvin].