Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 42:18

18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel, As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and ye shall see this place no more .

If you would see your doom in a glass look upon Ierusalem, whom according to my word I have dealt so severely with, that amongst men it would be called fury, though in me it was but deliberate Justice, that my wrath declared against them, like liquid things melted diffused it self into all the parts of it: I will deal so with you soon after you shall have entred into that Land, where you promise your selves so much ease, rest, and prosperity, and as I threatned to make Ierusalem a curse, an astonishment, and a reproach, chap. 24.9. and 29.18. so I will deal with you, and in this I will (saith God) deal worse with you, that whereas those of your Brethren, that were carried from Ierusalem to Babylon, shall some of them come back again after 60 years, you shall see this place no more. There was this aggravation of the Jews to whom God was now by his Prophet speaking. They had lately seen the words of the Lord spoken by the same Prophet verified, and yet would take no warning, but ran into the same sin of Unbelief.

Marginal references: chap. 7.20.; Zech. 8.1[illegible: 1 letter]