Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 50:9
from thence—that is, from the north country.
expert—literally, "prosperous." Besides "might," "expertness" is needed, that an arrow may do execution. The Margin has a different Hebrew reading; "destroying," literally, "bereaving, childless-making" (Jeremiah 15:7). The Septuagint and Syriac support English Version.
In vain—without killing him at whom it was aimed (II Samuel 1:22).
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