In this chapter, just as in the former, we have Jeremiah greatly debased under the frowns of the princes, and yet greatly honoured by the favour of the king. They used him as a criminal; he used him as a privy-counsellor. Here, I.

Here, 1. Jeremiah persists in his plain preaching; what he had many a time said, he still says : This city shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon; though it hold out long, it will taken at last.

In the foregoing chapter we had the king in close conference with Jeremiah, and here again, though he had given him up into the hands of his enemies; such a struggle there was in the breast of this unhappy prince between his convictions and his corruptions. Observe, I.