Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 30:14

14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee : they seek thee not, for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one , for the multitude of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased .

In the time of thy prosperity thou hadst many friends, but now they have forgotten thee, very probably the Egyptians and Assyrians, whose help the Iewes made often use of, are the lovers here intended, 2 Chron. 28.21. Hos. 12.1. indeed the Egyptians were before conquered, or very much brought low, by the King of Babylon.

They see the miserable case they are in, and now do not covet thee as formerly, they discern that I have wounded thee with such a wound, as cruel men use to give their enemies.

Though it be in me no act of cruelty, for it is but in a just punishment of your iniquities, which were increased to a very great multitude.

Marginal references: Job 13.24. and 16.9. and 19.11.; Job 30.21.; chap. 5.6.