Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 30:16 - 30:16

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 30:16 - 30:16


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The particle Nbl is thought here to be ill translated therefore, for manifestly it is not a causal or illative, and those who interpret it therefore refer it to what went before, Jer_30:10,11. It were better translated nevertheless, or notwithstanding yet: so the learned author of the English Annotations thinks it should be translated Isa_7:14 30:18, and in many other texts.



This text is a declaration of God’s free mercy: though this people had justly provoked the Lord by their iniquities to punish them, yet he would at length revenge them of their enemies, and those that spoiled them should feel his justice, and be themselves spoiled: so Isa_10:12 33:1. God ordinarily punisheth those that have been enemies to his people more severely than his people have been punished by them; the reasons are, because though they serve God in chastising his people, yet they do it not designedly, Isa_10:7, and commonly they exceed a measure in their executing God’s vengeance.