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

Why do we sit still?— This seems to be spoken in the person of the people who lived in open towns and villages, exhorting one another to repair to Jerusalem, and other fortified places, to seek for refuge; whereas the prophet had before exhorted the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to flee even thence. He therefore replies, in the following part of the verse, that God had indeed put them to silence in another sense; namely, he had taken away all their strength, and left them to be destroyed by their enemies. See Isaiah 47:5. Lowth and Calmet.