Jeremiah 14

12. not hear--because their prayers are hypocritical: their hearts are still idolatrous. God never refuses to hear real prayer ( Jeremiah 7:21 Jeremiah 7:22 , Proverbs 1:28 , Isaiah 1:15 , 58:3 ).
sword . . . famine . . . pestilence--the three sorest judgments at once; any one of which would be enough for their ruin ( 2 Samuel 24:12 2 Samuel 24:13 ).

13. Jeremiah urges that much of the guilt of the people is due to the false prophets' influence.
assured peace--solid and lasting peace. Literally, "peace of truth" ( Isaiah 39:8 ).

14. ( Jeremiah 23:21 ).

15. ( Jeremiah 5:12 Jeremiah 5:13 ).
By sword and famine . . . consumed--retribution in kind both to the false prophets and to their hearers ( Jeremiah 14:16 ).

16. none to bury--( Psalms 79:3 ).
pour their wickedness--that is, the punishment incurred by their wickedness ( Jeremiah 2:19 ).

17. ( Jeremiah 9:1 , Lamentations 1:16 ). Jeremiah is desired to weep ceaselessly for the calamities coming on his nation (called a "virgin," as being heretofore never under foreign yoke), ( Isaiah 23:4 ).

18. go about--that is, shall have to migrate into a land of exile. HORSLEY translates, "go trafficking about the land (see Jeremiah 5:31 , Margin; 2 Corinthians 4:2 , 2 Peter 2:3 ), and take no knowledge" (that is, pay no regard to the miseries before their eyes) ( Isaiah 1:3 , 58:3 ). If the sense of the Hebrew verb be retained, I would with English Version understand the words as referring to the exile to Babylon; thus, "the prophet and the priest shall have to go to a strange land to practise their religious traffic ( Isaiah 56:11 , Ezekiel 34:2 Ezekiel 34:3 , Micah 3:11 ).

19. The people plead with God, Jeremiah being forbidden to do so.
no healing--( Jeremiah 15:18 ).
peace . . . no good--( Jeremiah 8:15 ).

20. ( Daniel 9:8 ).

21. us--"the throne of Thy glory" may be the object of "abhor not" ("reject not"); or "Zion" ( Jeremiah 14:19 ).
throne of thy glory--Jerusalem, or, the temple, called God's "footstool" and "habitation" ( 1 Chronicles 28:2 , Psalms 132:5 ).
thy covenant--( Psalms 106:45 , Daniel 9:19 ).

22. vanities--idols ( Deuteronomy 32:21 ).
rain--( Zechariah 10:1 Zechariah 10:2 ).
heavens--namely, of themselves without God ( Matthew 5:45 , Acts 14:17 ); they are not the First Cause, and ought not to be deified, as they were by the heathen. The disjunctive "or" favors CALVIN'S explanation: "Not even the heavens themselves can give rain, much less can the idol vanities."
art not thou he--namely, who canst give rain?