John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 13:7

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then I went to Euphrates, etc.] In a vision; this is the second journey, of which (See Gill on “<241305>Jeremiah 13:5”), and digged; the hole, in process of time, being stopped up with soil or sand, that were thrown up over it; this digging was in a visionary way; (see <260808> Ezekiel 8:8): and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; which he knew again by some token or another: and, behold, the girdle was marred; or “corrupted”f257; it was become rotten by the washing of the water over it, and its long continuance in such a place: it was profitable for nothing; it could not be put upon a man’s loins, or be wore any more; nor was it fit for any other use, it was so sadly spoiled and so thoroughly rotten. It is in the Hebrew text, “it shall not prosper to all”f258 things; that is, not “to anything”f259, as many render it.

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