Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 8:6
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Jeremiah8:6
6. spake not aright--that is, not so as penitently to confess that they acted wrong. Compare what follows.
every one ... his course--The Keri reads "course," but the Chetib, "courses." "They persevere in the courses whatever they have once entered on." Their wicked ways were diversified.
horse rusheth--literally, "pours himself forth," as water that has burst its embankment. The mad rapidity of the war horse is the point of comparison (Job 39:19-25).
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