It is not neare] Or, It is not for us to build houses neare. There is no likelihood that these Prophets predictions concerning the taking and desolation of Jerusalem should happen so soon; wherefore without taking any more care about it, let us take our ease; the storm is fallen, and hath spent its rage upon the Jewes which are already gone into captivitie with Jehoiakim. See Isaiah 29:11. Ezekiel 12:22. Amos 6:3. 2 Peter 3:4. caldron] Questionlesse these people did make a scoffe at Jeremiahs prophesie, Chap. 1. 13. by which Jerusalem was likened to a pot, and the Chaldeans to a fire, thereby profanely gathering, that if that be the pot, we shall be the flesh, and shall remain in it, and shall not be driven out till the houre of our death come, (as the flesh is not taken out of the caldron till it be sod) as these Prophets contradicting one another, threaten us.