Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
All Commentaries on Jeremiah 18:21 Go To Jeremiah 18
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Therefore. He foretells of the event, and approves of the chastisement of the impenitent, (Calmet) whose "impurity might be a bad precedent for others. (St. Jerome) See chap. xvii. 18.