Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 6:12

12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the Inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

i. e. Their houses, and their lands shall be devolved, or turned over to strangers, chap. 8.10. even that land which they thought had been entailed upon them, and they so firmly fixed in for ever, Psal. 132.13, 14.

Their most desirable things, howbeit it need not bee restrained precisely to wives, the Heb ▪ signifying women largely, chap. 7.18. comprising Maids, Wives or Concubines, and this according to the threatning, Deut. 28.30. and chap. 8.10.

Viz. to smite, to give you a sorer blow, Isa. 5.25. a Synecdoche of the kind, spoken after the manner of men. Here the Prophet gives them the reason of this their unexpected calamity, that they might not think it an impossibility, namely, because God was become their Enemy.