Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 18:16

16 To make their hand desolate, and a perpetual hissing : every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head .

Not that this was finis operantis their end which they aimed at, none wisheth ill or doth any thing designedly to bring evil upon himself, but it was finis operis the end these courses would certainly issue in, they would bring the land of Iudah to desolations, and to be a reproach.

So as strangers that were wont to admire at the prosperity of this people, above any other people, should stand astonished, and wag their heads at them in scorn and derision.

Marginal references: chap. 19.8. and 49.13. and 5[illegible: 1 letter].13.