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Jeremiah 29:18

Jeremiah 29:18

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine,and with the pestilence,.... Or, "follow after them"; such as should make their escape out of the city, and go into Egypt, or other countries, for shelter and safety, should be pursued by the vengeance of God, and should fall by sword, famine, or pestilence, in other places:and will deliver them; such as should not perish by the above mentioned calamities:to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth; where they should be scattered, and live in exile: or "for a shaking to all the kingdoms of the earth" ; who should shake and tremble at such a dreadful spectacle of vengeance; or rather they should shake and tremble at the wrath of God upon them; or else their enemies, among whom they should be, should shake their heads at them, by way of insult and triumph over them:to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach,among all the nations whither I have driven them; where men shall look at them with amazement, and curse theft, and hiss at them, and reproach them, as the offscouring of the world.

Mhyrxa ytpdrw "et persequar post eos", Calvin, Piscator.

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