Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
pour out their blood by the force of the sword—literally, "by the hands of the sword." So Ezekiel 35:5. MAURER with JEROME translates, "deliver them over to the power of the sword." But compare Psalms 63:10, Margin; Isaiah 53:12. In this prayer he does not indulge in personal revenge, as if it were his own cause that was at stake; but he speaks under the dictation of the Spirit, ceasing to intercede, and speaking prophetically, knowing they were doomed to destruction as reprobates; for those not so, he doubtless ceased not to intercede. We are not to draw an example from this, which is a special case.
put to death—or, as in Jeremiah 15:2, "perish by the death plague" [MAURER].
men . . . young men—HORSLEY distinguishes the former as married men past middle age; the latter, the flower of unmarried youth.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 18:21:
Job 27:14
Isaiah 9:17
Jeremiah 15:2
Jeremiah 28:8
Ezekiel 35:5
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