Jeremiah 21

Jeremiah 21:4

TUrn back] the meaning seems to be thus, I will make your warlike engines, which you have set upon the City walls for your defence, to be to no use, neither shall they avail you any thing, being broken or dismounted by the enemies without. Or they shall cast up such fences against them, that they shall be to no effect, whereupon you will be constrained to draw them into the City again.

Jeremiah 21:9

His life] the Italian, their soul; that is to say, their persons at least shall escape, though they lose their goods. Or, they shall think themselves as happy in saving their lives, as if they carried away a great deal of booty.

Jeremiah 21:12

In the morning] that is to say, carefully, or, every morning, that is to say, every day, or at the hours of your judiciall assemblies, which were in the morning, Psal. 101. 8.

Jeremiah 21:13

Inhabitant] that is to say, O thou Jewish Nation, which dwellest in the vallies encompassed with high hils; and O Jerusalem, which art as it were the strength of all the plain that lieth round about thee, whereupon thou art confident against my threatnings, Jr. 17. 3. I my selfe, against whom no strength nor defence will prevail, will come against thee to execute my judgements.

Jeremiah 21:14

The fruit] that is to say, with a punishment beitting your sinnes: the sinne being as the seed, and the punishment as the harvest, Proverbs 1:31. In the forrest] namely, in the parts and Cities of this Countrey, which are most inhabited, rich and strong, see Isa. 10. 18. and 32. 19 Jeremiah 22:7.