Jeremiah 36:7

7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

Jeremiah 36:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 36:7

It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord,
&c.] Or, "perhaps their supplication will fall" ^F15; they will present it in an humble manner before him; alluding to the prostration of their bodies, and dejection of their countenances, in prayer: and will return every man from his evil way;
not only pray for mercy, but repent of sin, and reform; without which mercy is not to be expected: for great [is] the anger and fury that the Lord hath pronounced against
this people;
a very sore judgment, no less than the utter destruction of their city, temple, and nation.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (Mtnxt lpt ylwa) "forte, [vel] fortasse cadet deprecatio eorum", Piscator, Schmidt. So Pagninus, Montanus

Jeremiah 36:7 In-Context

5 Yirmeyahu commanded Barukh, saying, I am shut up; I can't go into the house of the LORD:

6 therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house on the fast-day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Yehudah who come out of their cities.

7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

8 Barukh the son of Neriyah did according to all that Yirmeyahu the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

9 Now it happened in the fifth year of Yehoiakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Yerushalayim, and all the people who came from the cities of Yehudah to Yerushalayim, proclaimed a fast before the LORD.