Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
At that time - See Jeremiah 4:7. Though the revelation of the certainty of Judah' s ruin wrings from Jeremiah a cry of despair, yet it is but for a moment; he immediately returns to the delivery of God' s message.
A dry wind - literally, A clear wind. The Samum is probably meant, a dry parching east wind blowing from the Arabian desert, before which vegetation withers, and human life becomes intolerable.
Not to fan ... - The Syrian farmers make great use of the wind for separating the chaff from the grain: but when the Samum blows labor becomes impossible. It is not for use, but for destruction.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 4:11:
Psalms 139:3
Isaiah 22:4
Isaiah 41:18
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