Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 10:25
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Jeremiah10:25
25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen , that know thee not, and upon the families, that call not on thy name : for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate .
This may imply both Petition, that God would do so, and Prediction that God will certainly do so, which toward the close of the Prophesie we find was fulfilled, God first sending the King of Babylon to overthrow divers of the Heathen Nations, and then Babylon it self destroyed with a great destruction. He will make a difference between us and the heathen, such as know thee not, i. e. Such as do not acknowledge and own thee for their God, the phrase is frequent, 1 Sam. 2.12. Iob 18.21. 2 Thess. 1.8. the sense is expressed here in the next words, that do not call on thy name.
A Synecdoche, one part of worship put for the whole, q. d. If thou wilt be pouring out thy fury, the effects of it be to thine Enemies, not unto thine own People, who worship thee.
Here he gives a reason as a motive to God, why he should do so; which words see explained on Psal. 79.5, 6, 7. whence they are taken, and possibly Ieremiah himself was the author of that psalm after the City was destroyed, and he carried into Aegypt, and for the phrase of devouring him, see chap. 8.16.
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