Jeremiah 12:17

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15 ^aThen it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them ^band bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.

16 And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, ^ato swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be ^bestablished in the midst of My people.

17 But if they do not ^aobey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,” says the Lord.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Jeremiah 12:17

I will - destroy that nation - Several of them did not obey, and are destroyed. Of the Moabites, Ammonites, and Chaldeans, not one vestige remains. The sixteenth verse is supposed to be a promise of the conversion of the Gentiles. See Ephesians 2:13-22.

From the thirteenth verse to the end is a different discourse, and Dahler supposes it to have been delivered in the seventh or eighth year of the reign of Jehoiakim.

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