Jeremiah 6:6

Hew ye down trees See Deuteronomy 20:20.

trees mg. her(the city's) trees.

cast up a mount Earth was carried in baskets, and poured in a heap, until it was on a level with the walls. The assault was then made. Cp. 2 Kings 19:32; Isaiah 29:3; also Herodotus (I. 162), describing the campaign of Harpagus, a general of Cyrus, in Ionia.

the city to be visited The expression comes in awkwardly, and MT. is very possibly corrupt. The LXX (reading differently two letters of the Hebrew verb, and so making it lit. the lie), renders, probably rightly, and with the support of Aquila's Greek Version, O false city!