Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 11:12

12 Then shall the cities of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods to whom they offer incense, but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble .

Shall here signifieth Will, and might as well have been so translated, denoting the hardness of the Hearts of this people, whom affliction would not reduce to God: or rather the Indicative Mo[illegible: 1 letter]d is here put for the Imperative, and the sense, Let the Cities of Iudah, &c. and the phrase taken Ironically. So it agreeth with Gods answer to the people crying to him, Iud. 10.14. and what this Prophet had before said chap. 2.28. But saith the Prophet, they shall do them no good, then they shall understand their vanity in their superstition and idolatry, that they have bestowed a divine homage upon lies and vanities, and things able to do them no good, nor at all to profit them.

Marginal references: Deut. 32.37, 38.; Heb. evil.