John Trapp on Jeremiah 21:8

Ver. 8. Behold I will ſet before you the way of life, and the way of death] They ſhould have their option, but a very ſad one: Saved they could not be from their enemies, but by their enemies: nor eſcape death but by captivity, which is a kind of living death, and not much to be preferred before death. Only life is ſweet, as the Gibeonites held it: and therefore choſe rather to be hewers of wood, and drawers of water, then to be cut off with the reſt of the Canaanites.