Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Repeated from Jeremiah 16:14-15. The prophet said the same things often, in order that his sayings might make the more impression. The name promise substantially as in Jeremiah 23:3-4. The wide dispersion of the Jews at the Babylonian captivity prefigures their present wider dispersion (Isaiah 11:11; Joel 3:6). Their second deliverance is to exceed far the former one from Egypt. But the deliverance from Babylon was inferior to that from Egypt in respect to the miracles performed, and the numbers delivered. The final deliverance under Messiah must therefore be meant, of which that from Babylon was the earnest.