Jeremiah 42:18
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What does Jeremiah 42:18 mean?
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel
(See Gill on
Jeremiah 42:15); as mine anger and my fury hath
been poured forth upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem;
like a large hasty shower of rain; or rather like melted metal,
which suddenly and swiftly runs, and spreads itself, and burns
and consumes with a violent heat; such was the wrath of God on
Jerusalem, in the destruction of it by the Chaldeans: so
shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter
into
Egypt;
as soon as they had well got there, quickly after they were
settled there; for it was in the time of the then present king of
Egypt, Pharaohhophra, and by the then present king of Babylon,
Nebuchadnezzar, that the destruction of Egypt was, in which these
Jews suffered: and ye shall be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a
reproach;
men should be astonished at the hand of God upon them, reproach
them for their sins; and when they made any imprecation on
themselves, it would be in this form, if it be so, let the same
calamities come upon me as upon the Jews in Egypt: and ye
shall see this place no more;
and so their case would be worse than their brethren in Babylon;
who, after a term of years were expired, would return to their
own land, which these would never see any more.
