Imagination. — Better, as before, stubbornness.
Shall even be as this girdle. — The same thought is reproduced in the imagery of the potter’s vessel in Jeremiah 18:4. On the other hand there is a partial reversal of the sentence in Jeremiah 24:5, where the “good figs” represent the exiles who learnt repentance from their sufferings, and the “bad” those who still remained at Jerusalem under Zedekiah.
Which is good for nothing. — Better, profitable for nothing, the Hebrew verse being the same as in Jeremiah 13:7.