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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 15:14

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies, etc.] Not Jeremiah, but the Jews, to whom these words are continued. The meaning is, that they should go along with the Chaldeans out of their own land into theirs: into a land which thou knowest not; the land of Babylon; and there is another reading of the words in the margin, “I will cause thee to serve thine enemiesf327, in a land that thou knowest not”; which is followed by the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions. Some render the words, “I will bring thine enemies from, or through, a land that thou knowest not”f328; the place from whence they came, and those through which they came, being at a great distance: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you; meaning the wrath of God, compared to fire, which was kindled and excited by their sins, and which would continue upon them until it had destroyed them.
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