For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
Ver. 15. Houses and fields and vineyards, &c.] However unlikely it may seem, like as it did to Moses, that the people should eat flesh a month together. He thought that God had made an unadvised promise, and prays him to consider that the people were six hundred thousand footmen, and that the flocks and herds would not suffice them. Jeremiah seemeth to object some such matter in his following prayer, especially Jeremiah 32:25. But God answereth them both alike - viz., that his hand was not waxen short, that nothing was too hard for him, that he was never nonplussed, &c. See Jeremiah 32:27 Numbers 11:23 .