Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 13:21

21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? (for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee) shall not sorrows take thee as a woman in travail .

That is, thou wilt have nothing to say, but be wholly confounded and ashamed when God shall visit thee with this sore judgment, or when Nebuchadnezzars Army sent by God, shall visit thee; for thou, either by thy commerce and trading with them, or by thy so often calling them to thy assistance, or by thy idolatry borrowed from them, and other Nations, hast taught them to be Captains over thee; thy sorrows and affliction will come upon thee suddenly and terribly as pain cometh upon a woman in travail, yea and as certainly also.

Marginal references: Heb. visit thee.; chap. 6.24.