Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 50:9
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Jeremiah50:9
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" (Jr 15:7). The Septuagint and Syriac support English Version.
In vain--without killing him at whom it was aimed (2Sa 1:22).
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