The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Ver. 1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord.] This chapter and the next are Jeremiah's thirteenth sermon, as some reckon them, and it is wholly consolatory. The author of it he showeth to be the "God of all consolation"; and this the prophet inculcateth six different times in the five first verses, pro maiori efficacia, that it may take the better.