Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 29:18

18 And I will persecute them with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach among all the Nations whither I have driven them .

These verses contain no more then the threatning which we have had more then once before, he had compared them to vile Figs, chap. 24.8. and ver. 9. and 10. there threatned them with being made a reproach, a proverb, a taunt, and a curse; and consuming them with the sword, famine, and Pestilence, the same thing before delivered by word of mouth to those in Iudea, is here repeated in a letter to that part of the Iews in Babylon, to take them off from giving credit to their false Prophets whither in Iudaea or in Babylon, who deluded them with the promises of a speedy return. Believe it (saith the Prophet) you shall be so far from returning whatever your idle Prophets tell you, that your Brethren that are here shall be brought to you or destroyed with the sword, the [illegible: 1 letter]amine, and the Pestilence, or scattered into other Kingdoms, where they shall be made, a curse and an astonishment, and an hissing and a reproach.

Marginal references: Deut. 28.25. chap. 15.4. & 34.17.; Heb. for a curse.; chap. 42.1[illegible: 1 letter].