Wesley Corpus

Weary - Though the people should labour to quench this fire, or to rebuild this city, yet it would be all lost labour. In the fourth year - This circumstance lets us know that this prophecy was many years before Babylon was destroyed; for it was seven years before Jerusalem was taken; so as it must be above sixty years before it was fulfilled in the first degree. Shalt read - Probably to the Jews, that were in Babylon. Shalt say - Thou shalt testify that thou believest what thou hast read. Weary - With that weight of judgment which shall be upon them. The words - The prophetical words of Jeremiah; for the matter of the next chapter is historical, and the book of Lamentations is not prophetical.