John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps ,.... That is, the walls and houses of it shall be thrown down, and become heaps of stones and rubbish: and a den of dragons ; only inhabited by wild beasts: and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without inhabitant ; so that the calamity would be universal; not only Jerusalem, but all the cities of the land, would be destroyed, forsaken, and uninhabited. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 9:1-11
The prophet, being commissioned both to foretel the destruction coming upon Judah and Jerusalem and to point out the sin for which that destruction was brought upon them, here, as elsewhere, speaks of both very feelingly: what he said of both came from the heart, and therefore one would have thought it would reach to the heart. I. He abandons himself to sorrow in consideration of the calamitous condition of his people, which he sadly laments, a one that preferred Jerusalem before his chief joy... read more