Gird up — It is a speech taken from the custom of the countries where they wore long garments; and therefore they girt them up about them, that they might not hinder them in any work that required expedition. Consume thee — Lest I destroy thee even in their sight, to become their reproach.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 1:17
Jeremiah 1:17
17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confoundc thee before them.