Jeremiah 14:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As a stranger in the land— Strangers are supposed to ransack and plunder a land of its riches; and a wayfaring-man, or traveller, to have little or no regard for it. The prophet's meaning therefore is, that the Lord seemed to have as little regard for Judah, as a hostile stranger, who would endeavour to ruin it; or as a traveller, for the place where he lodged only one night, without expecting ever to see it again. The opposition is between God, who had his dwelling in the midst of Judaea in the temple, and a passing traveller. See Calmet and Houbigant.