Jeremiah 25:38 - Exposition

Close of the prophecy with a fuller enunciation of the thought with which the paragraph was introduced. He hath forsaken ; comp. Jeremiah 25:30 , and notice the impressive non-mention of the subject (as Jeremiah 4:13 , etc.). Their land ; i.e. that of tile shepherds. The fierceness of the oppressor . A various reading, supported by some manuscripts, the Septuagint and the Targum, and accepted by Ewald, Hitzig, and Graf, and is the oppressing sword (so Jeremiah 46:16 ; Jeremiah 50:16 ). The text reading is very difficult to defend, and the punctuation itself is really more in favor of the variant than of the received text.