Shall not return... — i.e., shall not turn back from its purpose. Men should look back on it in the “latter days” — literally, the end of the days (Genesis 49:1; Numbers 24:14; Deuteronomy 4:30; Deuteronomy 31:29), i.e., in the then distant future of the exile and the return — and should see that it had done its work both of chastisement and discipline. (Comp. Ezekiel 14:22-23.)
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Jeremiah 23:20
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.