Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Ye have sinned - (note, Jeremiah 40:1). His address is directed to the Jews as well as to Jeremiah. God makes the very pagan testify for him against them, (Deuteronomy 29:24-25, "All nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of His great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken, the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers," etc.)