Jeremiah 29:17

“Thus saith the Lord of hosts, behold, I will send upon them the sword, etc.] The sword of the Chaldeans, by which many of them should fall, as they did. The Targum is, “I will send upon them those that kill with the sword:” who, though they were prompted to come against the Jews, through a natural and ambitious desire of conquering and plundering, yet were sent of God; nor would they have come, had he not willed and suffered it: the famine and the pestilence; to destroy others that escaped the sword; both these raged while Jerusalem was besieged by the Chaldeans: and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil; to which they are compared, (<242408>Jeremiah 24:8).…”

“vile figs--Hebrew, "horrible," or nauseous, from a root, "to regard with loathing" (see Jer 24:8, Jer 24:10).”

“These verses are not in the Septuagint. But the text of the Septuagint is here throughout so brief and confused as to be explicable only on the supposition, that it represents what was left behind in Egypt when Jeremiah died, copied probably with extreme haste, and with no opportunity of careful collation afterward. On the other hand the Hebrew text represents no hurried transcript, but the original manuscript, and is especially trustworthy in the case of these letters sent to Babylon (see also Jeremiah 51:0), because the originals of them would be available for collation with the text preserved by Jeremiah himself. The verses were probably intended to allay excitement in Babylon consequent…”

“Behold: Jer 29:18, Jer 15:2, Jer 15:3, Jer 24:8-10, Jer 34:17-22, Jer 43:11, Jer 52:6; Eze 5:12-17, Eze 14:12-21; Luk 21:11, Luk 21:23 them like: Jer 24:1-3, Jer 24:8 Jeremiah 29:18”