1; The grievous famine,
7; causes Jeremiah to pray.
10; The Lord will not be intreated for the people.
13; Lying prophets are no excuse for them.
17; Jeremiah is moved to complain for them.
* A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. The word.
This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the
fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew {batzaroth,} rendered
dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut
up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened
early in the reign of Zedekiah.
* the dearth. Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints.
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