Jer 1:14, 6:22 | JFB | e4.org | 14. break forth —"shall disclose itself." Out of the north — ( ). The Chaldeans did not cast off the yoke of Assyria till several years after, under Nabopolassar, 625 B.C. ; but long previously they had so increased as to threaten Assyria, which was now grown weak, and other neighboring peoples.

‏ Jeremiah 1:14

14. break forth—"shall disclose itself."

Out of the north— (Jer 4:6; 6:1, 22; 10:22; 25:9; Eze 26:7). The Chaldeans did not cast off the yoke of Assyria till several years after, under Nabopolassar, 625 B.C.; but long previously they had so increased as to threaten Assyria, which was now grown weak, and other neighboring peoples.

‏ Jeremiah 6:22

22. north . . . sides of the earth—The ancients were little acquainted with the north; therefore it is called the remotest regions (as the Hebrew for "sides" ought to be translated, see on Isa 14:13) of the earth. The Chaldees are meant (Jer 1:15; 5:15). It is striking that the very same calamities which the Chaldeans had inflicted on Zion are threatened as the retribution to be dealt in turn to themselves by Jehovah (Jer 50:41-43).