Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:16

16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after m them, till I have consumed them.

Either you shall wander up and down among strangers, like Cain's Curse; or rather, you shall have no friend abroad, but sold as so many Slaves from person to person.

Neither shall this serve their turn, but I will follow them with the sword, till they be destroyed, probably meant of those that might escape out of Ierusalem, and fly into Egypt, the Chaldean should pursue them thither, and either take, or slay them there, i. e. such of them as were appointed for destruction; for otherwise they were not all consumed, a full end was not to be made, as is promised chap. 5.10.

Part of the Curse threatned. Deut. 2[illegible: 1 letter].64.

Marginal references: Lev. 26.33. Deut. 28.64.