Jeremiah 6:11

     11. fury of . . . Lord—His denunciations against Judah communicated to the prophet.

      weary with holding in— (Jer 20:9).

      I will pour—or else imperative: the command of God (see Jer 6:12), "Pour it out" [MAURER].

      aged . . . full of days—The former means one becoming old; the latter a decrepit old man [MAURER] (Job 5:26; Isa 65:20).

Jeremiah 9:21

     21. death . . . windows—The death-inflicting soldiery, finding the doors closed, burst in by the windows.

      to cut off . . . children from . . . streets—Death cannot be said to enter the windows to cut off the children in the streets, but to cut them off, so as no more to play in the streets without (Zec 8:5).

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