Jeremiah 15:9
9. borne seven— (1Sa 2:5). Seven being the perfect number indicates full fruitfulness.
languisheth—because not even one is left of all her sons (Jer 15:8). sun is gone down while . . . yet day—Fortune deserts her at the very height of her prosperity (Am 8:9). she . . . ashamed—The mothers (she being collective) are put to the shame of disappointed hopes through the loss of all their children.Ezekiel 32:7-10
7. put thee out—extinguish thy light (Job 18:5). Pharaoh is represented as a bright star, at the extinguishing of whose light in the political sky the whole heavenly host is shrouded in sympathetic darkness. Here, too, as in Eze 32:6, there is an allusion to the supernatural darkness sent formerly (Ex 10:21-23). The heavenly bodies are often made images of earthly dynasties (Isa 13:10; Mt 24:29).
9. thy destruction—that is, tidings of thy destruction (literally, "thy breakage") carried by captive and dispersed Egyptians "among the nations" [GROTIUS]; or, thy broken people, resembling one great fracture, the ruins of what they had been [FAIRBAIRN].
10. brandish my sword before them—literally, "in their faces," or sight.