Jer 9:10, Hos 4:3 | JFB | STEP | 10. Jeremiah breaks in upon Jehovah's threats of wrath with lamentation for his desolated country. mountains —once cultivated and fruitful: the hillsides were cultivated in terraces between the rocks. habitations of . . . wilderness —rather, "the pleasant herbage (literally, 'the choice parts' of any thing) of the pasture plain." The Hebrew for "wilderness" expresses not a barren desert, but an untilled plain, fit for pasture. burned up —because no one waters them, the inhabitants being all gone. none can pass through them —much less inhabit them. fowl

Jeremiah 9:10

10. Jeremiah breaks in upon Jehovah's threats of wrath with lamentation for his desolated country.

mountains—once cultivated and fruitful: the hillsides were cultivated in terraces between the rocks.

habitations of . . . wilderness—rather, "the pleasant herbage (literally, 'the choice parts' of any thing) of the pasture plain." The Hebrew for "wilderness" expresses not a barren desert, but an untilled plain, fit for pasture.

burned up—because no one waters them, the inhabitants being all gone.

none can pass through them—much less inhabit them.

fowl— (Jer 4:25).

Hosea 4:3

3. land . . . languish— (Isa 19:8; 24:4; Joe 1:10, 12).

sea—including all bodies of water, as pools and even rivers (see on Isa 19:5). A general drought, the greatest calamity in the East, is threatened.