Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
fruit of your doings— (Proverbs 1:31; Isaiah 3:10-11).
forest thereof—namely of your city, taken from Jeremiah 21:13. "Forest" refers to the dense mass of houses built of cedar, etc., brought from Lebanon (Jeremiah 22:7; Jeremiah 52:13; II Kings 25:9).
Belonging to an earlier period than the twenty-first chapter, namely, the reigns of Shallum or Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Jeconiah (Jeremiah 22:10, Jeremiah 22:13, Jeremiah 22:20). Jeremiah often groups his prophecies, not by chronological order, but by similarity of subjects; thus Jeremiah 22:3 corresponds to Jeremiah 21:12. GROTIUS thinks that Jeremiah here repeats to Zedekiah what he had announced to that king's predecessors formerly (namely, his brother and brother's son), of a similar bearing, and which had since come to pass; a warning to Zedekiah. Probably, in arranging his prophecies they were grouped for the first time in the present order, designed by the Holy Spirit to set forth the series of kings of Judah, all four alike, failing in "righteousness," followed at last by the "King," a righteous Branch raised unto David, in the house of Judah, "the Lord our righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6). The unrighteousness of Zedekiah suggested the review of his predecessors' failure in the same respects, and consequent punishment, which ought to have warned him, but did not.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 21:14:
2 Kings 25:1
Jeremiah 21:1
Lamentations 4:11
Ezekiel 20:47
Micah 7:13
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