Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 4:20

20 Destruction upon destruction is cryed, for the whole land is spoiled : suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

A farther expression of his bitter Lamentation, redoubling his complaint; the end of one, but the beginning of another, q. d. worse and worse, Deut. 32.23. Ezek. 7.26. Good Iosiah slain, and four of his Successors carried away, or slain, or both. 2 Chron. 36.

This is more particularly described, verse 23.24, 25, 26.

The enemy makes no more of overthrowing my stately Cities, and magnificent Palaces, sometimes described by Tents, Isa. 54.2. then if he were plundering of a Camp, or overturning of Tents made of curtains, chap. 49.29. either alluding to their ancient way of living, Numb. 24.2, 5. or their Wilderness condition, when they abode in Tents; we are reduced to as mean a condition as then, and that suddenly, ere we are aware, done with as much ease as to overturn a poor shepherds Cottage, Lam. 2.5, 6. Ieremiah possibly personating a shepherd, speaks in the shepherds stile, and may here signifie the destruction of their whole Country, even all those places and fields, where shepherds were wont to pitch their Tents.

Marginal references: Psal. 42.7.