Jer 5:10, 18, 30:11, 46:28 | JFB | STEP | 10. Abrupt apostrophe to the Babylonians, to take Jerusalem, but not to destroy the nation utterly (see on ). battlements —rather, tendrils [MAURER ]: the state being compared to a vine ( ), the stem of which was to be spared, while the tendrils (the chief men) were to be removed.

Jeremiah 5:10

10. Abrupt apostrophe to the Babylonians, to take Jerusalem, but not to destroy the nation utterly (see on Jer 4:27).

battlements—rather, tendrils [MAURER]: the state being compared to a vine (Jer 12:10), the stem of which was to be spared, while the tendrils (the chief men) were to be removed.

Jeremiah 5:18

18. Not even in those days of judgments, will God utterly exterminate His people.

I will not make a full end with you— (Jer 5:10; Jer 4:27).

Jeremiah 30:11

11. though . . . full end of all nations . . . yet . . . not . . . of thee— (Am 9:8). The punishment of reprobates is final and fatal; that of God's people temporary and corrective. Babylon was utterly destroyed: Israel after chastisement was delivered.

in measure—literally, "with judgment," that is, moderation, not in the full rigor of justice (Jer 10:24; 46:28; Ps 6:1; Isa 27:8).

not . . . altogether unpunished— (Ex 34:7).

Jeremiah 46:28

27, 28. Repeated from Jer 30:10, 11. When the Church (and literal Israel) might seem utterly consumed, there still remains hidden hope, because God, as it were, raises His people from the dead (Ro 11:15). Whereas the godless "nations" are consumed even though they survive, as are the Egyptians after their overthrow; because they are radically accursed and doomed [CALVIN].