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Commentary On Jeremiah And Lamentations Volume 3 by Jean Calvin

Jeremiah 25:37

37. And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

37. Et peribunt (vel, succidentur, vertunt alii) pascua pacis (tuguria pacis, hos est, tranquilla) a facie excandescentiae (vel, furoris) irae Jehovae.

He goes on with the same subject, that the tents, previously tranquil, would perish or be destroyed. And he designedly calls their dwellings peaceable; for the Jews, having found that their enemies had not before disturbed them, still promised to themselves the same good fortune in future.

And the faithful indeed do act thus rightly, and justly conclude from God's previous benefits that he will be kind to them as he had ever been so; but hypocrites, though they repent not, yet absurdly think that God is bound to them; and though they daily provoke his wrath, they yet securely continue in their confidence of having peace. Since God then had until that time deferred the grievousness of his wrath, the Prophet says, that though their tents had been peaceable, yet they could not be exempted from destruction as soon as the indignation of God's wrath went forth. It might have been enough to make use of one of these words, either of chrvn, cherun, or of 'ph, aph; but the Prophet used the two, indignation and wrath, in order that he might fill the wicked with more terror; for as they were obstinate in their wickedness, so they were not moved except God doubled his strokes and set forth the extremity of his wrath. It follows, --

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