Jeremiah 17:18

destroy them with double destruction lit. as mg. break them with a double breach. Cp. Jeremiah 4:6. This may mean a literally twofold punishment, the one part for their apostasy as a nation, the other for their treatment of Jeremiah. It seems more likely however that doubleis merely equivalent to utter, complete.

Co. with Du. holds that the imprecation, as in direct opposition to Jeremiah 17:16, stamps this part of the v., or according to him, the whole v. as unauthentic (but see Jeremiah 11:20). For metrical reasons also he rejects the v., but considers that it has taken the place of a genuine ending to the passage, now lost.