Jeremiah 10:21

“For the pastors are become brutish, etc.] The “kings” of Judah, so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, as Jehoiakim and Zedekiah; though it need not be restrained to these only, but may include all inferior civil magistrates, and even all ecclesiastical rulers, who were the shepherds of the people; but these being like the brute beasts, and without understanding of civil and religious things, and not knowing how to govern the people either in a political or ecclesiastical way, were the cause of their ruin. And have not sought the Lord; this is an instance of their brutishness and stupidity, and opens the source of all their mistakes and misfortunes; they did not seek the Lord for counsel, by…”

“pastors--the rulers, civil and religious. This verse gives the cause of the impending calamity.”

“The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jeremiah 10:19 Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable. A grief - Or, “my grief.” Jeremiah 10:20 tabernacle - i. e., “tent.” Jerusalem laments that her tent is plundered and her children carried into exile, and so “are not,” are dead Matthew 2:18, either absolutely, or dead to her in the remote land of their captivity. They can aid the widowed mother no longer in pitching her tent, or in hanging up the curtains round about it. Jeremiah 10:21 Therefore they shall not prosper - Rather, “therefore they have not governed wisely.” “The pastors,” i. e.,…”

“The pastors - The rulers of church and state. Jeremiah 10:22”

“10:21 The shepherds (priests and prophets; see 5:29-31) had turned their backs on the wisdom from the Lord that had been preserved in priestly memory and in the prophetic messages, both verbal and written. The divine decree predicted the utter failure of these leaders, as well as the resultant scattering of the people.”

“the pastors: Jer 10:8, Jer 10:14, Jer 2:8, Jer 5:31, Jer 8:9, Jer 12:10, 23:9-32; Isa 56:10-12; Eze 22:25-30; Eze 34:2-10; Joh 10:12, Joh 10:13; Zac 10:3 their: Jer 23:1, Jer 49:32, Jer 50:17; Eze 34:5, Eze 34:6, Eze 34:12; Zac 13:7 Jeremiah 10:22”