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Mine anger; put for his revenge, by a metonymy of the cause for the effect.
My fury: this expresseth his anger boiled up to the height, Jer_4:4.
Poured out; a metaphor taken from violent rains; see Jer_6:11; and may in particular allude to those showers of fire that were poured out upon Sodom, Gen_19:24.
Upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground: these particulars are enumerated to express an utter desolation and ruin; see Jer_4:25; and it is threatened against those creatures which are innocent, because they were made for the use of man, partly that it might show how greatly God is offended, and that it should work upon them not only a greater fear of his judgments, but a greater shame for their sin, that they should occasion such sufferings upon the innocent creature, Rom_8:20,22.
Shall not be quenched: he follows the threatening with showing the irresistibleness of it; his resolution is not to be revoked, Jer_4:4; and this is suitable to the charge he gave the prophet, Jer_7:16.