Jeremiah 50:7

7. devoured— ( :-). "Found them" implies that they were exposed to the attacks of those whoever happened to meet them.

adversaries said—for instance, Nebuzara-dan (Jeremiah 40:2; Jeremiah 40:3; compare Jeremiah 40:3- :). The Gentiles acknowledged some supreme divinity. The Jews' guilt was so palpable that they were condemned even in the judgment of heathens. Some knowledge of God's peculiar relation to Judea reached its heathen invaders from the prophets (Jeremiah 2:3; Daniel 9:16); hence the strong language they use of Jehovah here, not as worshippers of Him themselves, but as believing Him to be the tutelary God of Judah ("the hope of their fathers," Daniel 9:16- :; they do not say our hope), as each country was thought to have its local god, whose power extended no farther.

habitation— (Psalms 90:1; Psalms 91:1). Alluding to the tabernacle, or, as in Ezekiel 34:14, "fold," which carries out the image in Ezekiel 34:14- :, "resting-place" of the "sheep." But it can only mean "habitation" (Ezekiel 34:14- :), which confirms English Version here.

hope of their fathers—This especially condemned the Jews that their apostasy was from that God whose faithfulness their fathers had experienced. At the same time these "adversaries" unconsciously use language which corrects their own notions. The covenant with the Jews' "fathers" is not utterly set aside by their sin, as their adversaries thought; there is still "a habitation" or refuge for them with the God of their fathers.