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Jer_39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou [art] afraid.
Ver. 17. But I will deliver thee in that day.] From the sword, the famine, and the pestilence. "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee; only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked"; {Psa_91:7-8} and that the Lord is sure, though slow, tarditatem supplicii gravitate compensans. {a}
And thou shalt not be delivered into the hands of those men.] Zedekiah’s courtiers, who do bear thee an aching tooth for thy kindness to my prophet, and have vowed revenge.
{a} Val. Max.