Jeremiah 45

Jeremiah 45:1

The birds round about - It is usual for other birds to flock about a strange coloured bird, such as they have not been used to see.

Jeremiah 45:2

A wilderness - They have caused God to turn the country which he had chosen for his portion, into a wilderness.

Jeremiah 45:3

They - Heb. He hath made it desolate: but it cannot be meant of God, for it is God that speaketh, and God is he mentioned in the next words; it must therefore either be understood of Nebuchadnezzar, the instrumental cause; or (one number being put for another) of the people or the rulers as the meritorious cause, and in that rueful state into which their sins had brought it, it cried onto God. Because - And one great cause of this sore judgment was, the peoples not seriously considering what God had done or was doing against it.

Jeremiah 45:4

Are come - The prophet, as usual, speaks of a thing as already done, which was very shortly to be done. No flesh - No rank or order of men.

Jeremiah 45:5

Shall not profit - All the works of their hands, all their counsels and deliberations should be of no profit unto them. Because - The fierce anger of God shall be so shewed, that the returns of their labours or estates, the profits of their trades, shall be so small, that they shall be ashamed of them.