accomplished them] When thou art within fourty of the last as may appear by comparing the ninth verse with the fifth, and this. house of Judah] Judah should be destroyed when fourty years should be accomplished in the preaching of Jeremie, whom they so much despised. Of the tribe of Judah; whose sinnes have been as it were confused and mixed with the sinnes of the other ten Tribes for the former number of years, are now reckoned severally from the time of Jeremies beginning to preach in they thirteenth of Josiah, Jeremiah 1:2. unto the eleventh year of Zedekiah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month, Vers. 3. fourty years] God by Ezekiel maketh famous the pains of his servant Jeremy, who laboured to keep Judah from being carried to Babel, as into a wildernesse, fourtie years before the third captivitie, that which followed the Temples burning. each day for a year] Heb. a day for a year, a day for a year.