John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 6:12
And their houses shall be turned unto others ,.... To strangers, to the Chaldeans; they shall be transferred unto them, come into their hands, and become their property: with their fields and wives together : not only their houses and lands shall be taken away from them, and put to the use of others, but even their wives; than which nothing could be more distressing: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord ; the inhabitants of the land of... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 6:9-17
The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line. I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the haste which the Chaldea army made to the war (Jer. 6:4, 5); now here we have the havoc made by the war. How lamentable are the desolations here described! The enemy shall so long quarter among them, and be so insatiable in their thirst after blood and treasure, that they shall seize all they can meet... read more