Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Ver. 6. Then will I make this house like Shiloh.] This same threat Jeremiah had uttered in good Josiah's days, Jer 7:12-14 and no harm ensued. Now, tempora mutantur, truth breedeth hatred; and the prophet is in danger, for discharging his conscience, to be murdered; as were Rogers, Bradford, Taylor, and other famous preachers in those dog days of Queen Mary.