Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:10

10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping, and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burnt up, so that none can pass through them, neither can men hear the voice of the cattel; both the fowls of the heavens, and the beast are fled, they are gone.

The Prophet having ver. 1. taken up a Lamentation for the slaughter of the People, he now reassumes it for the desolation of the whole land, every part of it being to be laid waste, see chap. 4.23, 26. and it either sets forth the greatness of his grief, that shall reach to the very mountains, as the words may be read, or rather, the cause of his mourning, because he presently adds for the habitations of the wilderness.

Plain or Valley as it often signifies, so the word is used, Isa. 63.13, 14. or pleasant plains; the Country of Iudea being mountainous, these Plains and Valleys were their chief places for Pastorage, which doth greatly aggravate the Devastation, these shall be burnt up the Herbage so burnt, that it shall be left utterly barren like a parched Heath, verse 12. The Mountains shall not be able to secure them, nor the valleys to feed them.

Either there being no path, the LXX render it on the paths of the wilderness, or none to pass to and fro, and so leave it desolate; or so parched, and wast, that none can pass through it, so far are they from being inhabited, chap. 2.6.

There, where once all sort of Cattel and fowls in great plenty were wont to feed and graze, there is not so much as the chirping of a Bird, the bleating of a Sheep, or lowing of an Oxe to be heard. See chap. 23.10, 12, 13. and 50.3. they are said to be fled and gone, either the Enemy hath swept away all, or they have forsaken the Land, because there was no food, Ier. 12.4. a figurative expression of an universal desolation.

Marginal references: chap. 12.4. & 23.10. Hos. 4.3.; Or, pastures.; Or, desolate.; Heb. from the [illegible: 1 letter]owl even to &c.