John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 19:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing, etc.] An hissing to its enemies; an hissing because desolate; when its walls should be broken down, its houses burnt with fire, and its inhabitants put to the sword, or carried captive: everyone that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and hiss; surprised to see the desolations of it; that a city once so famous and flourishing should be reduced to such a miserable condition; and yet hiss by way of detestation and abhorrence of it, and for joy at its ruin: because of all the plagues thereof: by which it was brought to desolation, as the sword, famine, burning, and captivity.

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