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Their houses shall be turned unto others, i.e. their houses and their lands shall be devolved or turned over to strangers, Jer_8:10, even that land which they thought had been entailed upon them, and they so firmly fixed in for ever, Psa_132:13,14.
Their wives; their most desirable things; howbeit it need not be restrained precisely to wives, the Hebrew signifying women largely, Jer_7:18, comprising
maids, wives, or concubines, and this according to the threatening, Deu_28:30 Jer_8:10.
I will stretch out my hand, viz. to smite, to give you a sorer blow, Isa_5:25; a synecdoche of the kind, spoken after the manner of men. Here the prophet gives them the reason of this their unexpected calamity, that they might not think it an impossibility; namely, because God was become their enemy.