rooted them out Heb. natash, not elsewhere in the Hex. but common in Jer. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 12:15.

in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath] (Driver). So Jeremiah 21:5; Jeremiah 32:37.

cast them into another land Jeremiah 22:26: -I will cast thee out (another vb.) … into another land."

as at this day This can hardly belong to the predicted statement of the contemporaries of the Exile; it must either be the writer's own and if so betrays his date at that time, or it is an editorial addition. In view of the language of the whole chapter, the former alternative is the more probable.

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