Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 21:14
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Jeremiah21:14
14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD : and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof , and it shall devour all things round about it .
In the Hebrew it is, I will visit upon you; Gods Visitations are either of Mercy, Psal. 80.14. & 106.4. Or of Iudgment; therefore the sense is here rightly given by our Translators, punish.
The fruit of mens doings is the product of their Actions, God punisheth the fruit of our doings. In shewing Mercy, he acts from Prerogative; in Punishments, he doth but fill men with their own wayes, and give them according to the fruit of their doings; so ver. 12.
By the Forest he either meaneth the Forrest of Lebanon, or their Houses made up of wood cut out of that Forrest, or their Idolatrous Groves.
And this fire he saith should not determine in the destruction onely of this City but in the Total Destruction of all the Country adjacent to Hierusalem.
Marginal references: Heb. Visit upon you.; Prov. 1.31.
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