Jeremiah 29:18

“And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, etc.] Or, “follow afterf556 them”; such as should make their escape out of the city, and go into Egypt, or other countries, for shelter and safety, should be pursued by the vengeance of God, and should fall by sword, famine, or pestilence, in other places: and will deliver them; such as should not perish by the above mentioned calamities: to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth; where they should be scattered, and live in exile: or “for a shaking to all the kingdoms of the earth”f557; who should shake and tremble at such a dreadful spectacle of vengeance; or rather they should shake and tremble at the…”

“removed to all . . . kingdoms-- (Jer 15:4; Deu 28:25). curse, &c.-- (Jer 29:6; Jer 18:16; Jer 19:8).”

“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…”

“will deliver: Jer 15:4, Jer 24:9, Jer 34:17; Lev 26:33; Deu 28:25, Deu 28:64; Ch2 29:8; Psa 44:11; Eze 6:8, Eze 12:15, Eze 22:15, Eze 36:19; Amo 9:9; Zac 7:14; Luk 21:24 to be a curse: Heb. for a curse, Jer 29:22, Jer 19:8, Jer 25:9, Jer 26:6, Jer 42:18; Deu 29:21-28; Kg1 9:7, Kg1 9:8; Ch2 7:19-22, Ch2 29:8; Isa 65:15; Lam 2:15, Lam 2:16 Jeremiah 29:19”