Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The Jews were only hardened by the foregoing prophecy, and determined to compass Jeremiah' s death.
Let us devise devices - i. e., "deliberately frame a plot" for his ruin (see Jeremiah 18:11 note).
The law shall not perish ... - As the Law of Moses was imperishable, the people probably drew the conclusion that the Levitical priesthood must also endure forever, and therefore that Jeremiah' s predictions of national ruin were blasphemous (compare Acts 6:13-14).
Let us smite him with the tongue - Their purpose was to carry a malicious report of what he had said to king Jehoiakim, and so stir up his anger against him.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 18:18:
Psalms 35:15
Amos 2:12
Zechariah 11:8
Romans 4:3
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