how long?] How long shall thy prophets preach thus without fruit, and thy people persist in this their obstinacie? Jeremiah 4:14. and Jeremiah 13:27.
the cities be wasted] Untill the whole state be ruined, 2 King. 25. 9-11.
man] Or, any one, as Jeremiah 5:1. and Jeremiah 9:9.
utterly desolate,] Heb. desolate, or, wast, with desolation, as Chap. 22. 17, 18. Micah 2:10.