Jeremiah 25:9

the families of the north See ch. Jeremiah 1:14 f.

families For the wide use of this word see on Jeremiah 3:14, and cp. Jeremiah 8:3.

utterly destroy lit. as mg. devote, i.e. place them under a ban. LXX, reading otherwise two Hebrew letters often written rather similarly, lay waste. Cp. Deuteronomy 20:17.

an astonishment a destruction. See on Jeremiah 5:30.

desolations LXX (by a variation of one letter) reproach.