Jeremiah 30:23

This and the following v. are nearly identical with Jeremiah 23:19-20 (see notes there), where judgement is pronounced upon the false prophets. Co. (not so Du.) doubts their genuineness here as well as there, both for metrical reasons, and because the thought they contain is one which has not met us hitherto, viz. a purifying judgement to be executed on recreant Jews (the general reference of "the wicked" in the Hebrew) before the final deliverance.

a sweeping(mg. gathering) tempest The sense of the Hebrew word is uncertain. Probably sweepingor rushingis the meaning intended.