They are coming in to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.
There are two parts to this prophecy, — that the Jews were about to perish through their own fault, — and that they were to be restored through the favor and goodness of God alone. Here, then, in the first place, the Prophet condemns the false confidence of the people, who stoutly resisted the Chaldeans.
God speaks not once but twice, for we are so distrustful we need promise upon promise to comfort us. No prison walls can shut out His gracious visits; Paul's sweetest letters were written from a cell. As afflictions abound, His consolations abound much more.
AI summary
Commenting on Jeremiah 33:1-9
They come to fight with the Chaldeans,.... Either the Jews out of the country, or their auxiliaries, their neighbours, to oblige them to break up the siege; but all to no purpose: or rather the Jews within; who, from the mounts erected, fight with the Chaldeans; or by sallying out upon them: but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men; the...