Jer 1:10 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 10. I have-set thee over the nations ] God represents his messengers the prophets as doing what he commanded them to declare should be done . In this sense they rooted up, pulled down , and destroyed -declared God's judgments, they builded up and planted -declared the promises of his mercy . Thus God says to Isaiah, : "Make the heart of this people fat-and shut their eyes." Show them that they are stupid and blind ; and that, because they have shut their eyes and hardened their hearts, God will in his judgments leave them to their hardness and darkness.

‏ Jeremiah 1:10

Verse 10. I have-set thee over the nations] God represents his messengers the prophets as doing what he commanded them to declare should be done. In this sense they rooted up, pulled down, and destroyed-declared God's judgments, they builded up and planted-declared the promises of his mercy. Thus God says to Isaiah, Isa 6:10: "Make the heart of this people fat-and shut their eyes." Show them that they are stupid and blind; and that, because they have shut their eyes and hardened their hearts, God will in his judgments leave them to their hardness and darkness.