O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
I have said that the former verse is confirmed by these words; for since the Prophet mentions to God his own name, we must consider the cause of the confidence with which he was supported, which was even this, — because God had chosen that people, and promised that they should be to him a peculiar people.
The first verse is the title of the whole chapter: it does indeed all concern the dearth, but much of it consists of the prophet's prayers concerning it; yet these are not unfitly said to be, The word of the Lord which came to him concerning it, for every acceptable prayer is that which God puts into our hearts; nothing is our word that comes...
Commenting on Jeremiah 14:1-9
O the hope of Israel,.... The author, object, ground, and foundation of hope of all good things, both here and hereafter; in whom Israel had been used to hope in times past, and had great encouragement so to do, Psa 130:7 or, "the expectation of Israel" (f); whom they looked for to come: the Saviour thereof in time of trouble; the Saviour of all men...