In these verses, I. The prophet threatens, in God’s name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer. 10:17 , 18 . The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into captivity, were very secure; they thought themselves inhabitants of a fortress ; their country was their strong hold, and, in their own conceit, impregnable; but they are here told to think of leaving it: th...