JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 18:7 pluck up, break down, destroy. Judgment metaphors from agriculture, construction, and war. See Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 45:4. If. Many of the biblical prophecies are conditional. Whether or not the people repent matters, because the goal of prophecy, more than simply telling the future, is the moral formation of God’s people. See note on Jonah 3:4.

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