Jeremiah 16:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

O Lord ... the Gentiles shall come unto the earth. The result of God's judgments on the Jews will be that both the Jews when restored and the Gentiles who have witnessed those judgments shall renounce idolatry for the worship of Yahweh: fulfilled partly at the return from Babylon, after which the Jews entirely renounced idols and many proselytes were gathered in from the Gentiles; but not to be realized in its fullness until the final restoration of Israel, (Isaiah 2:1-22.)

Jeremiah 16:19

19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.