aAssemble yourselves,
And let us enter the fortified cities,
And let us be silent there.
For the Lord our God has put us to silence
And given us bwater of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.
The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of His bstrong ones;
For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it,
The city and those who dwell in it.”
Vipers which cannot be acharmed,
And they shall bite you,” says the Lord.
The Prophet Mourns for the People
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Jeremiah 8:16
his horses—the Chaldean's.
was heard—the prophetical past for the future.
from Dan—bordering on Phœnicia. This was to be Nebuchadnezzar's route in invading Israel; the cavalry in advance of the infantry would scour the country.
strong ones—a poetical phrase for steeds, peculiar to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 47:3; compare Jeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 4:29; Jeremiah 6:23).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 8:16:
Jeremiah 4:15
Jeremiah 50:11
Revelation 7:3
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