Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 8:3

3 And death shall be chosen rather then life, by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

A description of the unexpressibleness of their misery, that notwithstanding all the barbarism of the Babylonians excercised, both upon the living and the dead, yet a small matter in comparison of what the living would feel, of the greatness of which misery there was a double cause; not only their being led into Captivity, but Gods displeasure following them, even in their banishment, being sorely oppressed, one of those threatnings, Lev. 26.36, 39. see Iob 3.20, 21. Rev. 9.6.

Some dispersed among the Mountains, and hiding places of Iudea, others in the Desert of Moab and Idumea, whither they fled for fear of the Chaldeans and all other places, where God would scatter them, an Hypallage.

He that hath all the Creatures as an Army at his Command, can do this against those, with whom he is displeased▪