May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.
He proceeds with his imprecation, he then wishes that a cry should he heard from the houses, as though he had said, “Let there be no refuge for them when their calamity shall happen:” For his own house is to every one his place of safetyin a disordered state of things.
The prophet here, as sometimes before, brings in his own affairs, but very much for instruction to us. I. See here what are the common methods of the persecutors. We may see this in Jeremiah's enemies, Jer 18:18. 1. They laid their heads together to consult what they should do against him, both to be revenged on him for what he had said and to...
Commenting on Jeremiah 18:18-23
cry--by reason of the enemy bursting in: let their houses be no shelter to them in their calamities [CALVIN]. digged . . . pit-- (Jer 18:20; Psa 57:6; Psa 119:85).