Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 6:7

7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

In this verse God aggravates their [illegible: 1 letter]in of oppression mentioned in the former, a Metaphor to express how natural all manner of wickedness is to her, how full she is of it, and how uncessant in it, noting her impudence, a fountain being not able to retain its water, and the expression of casting it out seems to imply her violence in her filthiness, as it is said of the Sea, that it casteth out mire and dirt, Isa 57.20. and favoured by the next clause.

q. d. This is all she busieth her self about, chap. 20.8. It is the general complaint of her inhabitants.

Viz. That the poor sustain, wherever I go or look, I can hear and see nothing but the sad complaints, and grievances of the poor, lamenting over oppression and cruelties, that are used against them, Psal. 69.26. this being so expresly against God's command, Exod. 22.22, 23, 24, &c. Isa. 3.14, 15. Iam. 5.4 for this refers, rather to the[illegible: 1 letter]r sin, than to their sufferings from the Enemy, as some would carry it.

Marginal references: Psal. 55.9▪ 10, 11.