Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 30:16
The particle לָכֵן is thought here to be ill translated therefore, for manifestly it is not a causal or illative, and those who interpret it therefore refer it to what went before, Jeremiah 30:10,Jeremiah 30:11. It were better translated nevertheless, or notwithstanding yet: so the learned author of the English Annotations thinks it should be translated Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 30:18, and in many other texts. This text is a declaration of God’s free mercy: though this people had justly provoked the... read more
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 30:5-22
Jeremiah 30:5-Song of Solomon : . Description of the people’ s terror ( Jeremiah 30:5 mg.) at the “ Day of Yahweh” ( Amos 5:18); but this “ Day” shall bring deliverance from the (heathen) yoke ( Jeremiah 30:8), and Israel shall have (religious) freedom under the future “ Davidic” king. The gathered people shall be delivered from fear (like a protected flock, Isaiah 17:2); the heathen nations shall be destroyed, Israel escaping with proper chastisement only ( Jeremiah 10:24). At present, Zion... read more