Jeremiah 19:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Then shalt thou break the bottle - a symbolical action, explained in Jeremiah 19:11.

In the sight of the men - the elders of the people and of the priests (Jeremiah 19:1; cf. the similar symbolical action of the stone bound to the Book of Prophecies and cast into the Euphrates, as a sign of Babylon's sinking to rise no more, Jeremiah 51:63-64).

Jeremiah 19:10

10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,