Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Jeremiah breaks in upon Jehovah's threats of wrath with lamentation for his desolated country.
mountains—once cultivated and fruitful: the hillsides were cultivated in terraces between the rocks.
habitations of . . . wilderness—rather, "the pleasant herbage (literally, 'the choice parts' of any thing) of the pasture plain." The Hebrew for "wilderness" expresses not a barren desert, but an untilled plain, fit for pasture.
burned up—because no one waters them, the inhabitants being all gone.
none can pass through them—much less inhabit them.
fowl— (Jeremiah 4:25).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 9:10:
Jeremiah 4:19
Zephaniah 1:3
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