Jeremias 10:18

I will sling out. — The same bold metaphor, though not the same word, for violent expulsion, is found in the prophecy of the fate of Shebna (Isaías 22:18).

That they may find it so. — In the Hebrew, the verb, though transitive, stands by itself, without an object. The ellipsis has been filled up either by “it,” as in the English Version, i.e., may feel it in all its bitterness; or by “me,” as in the Syriac version, i.e., may be led through their misery to seek and find Jehovah. The parallelism of Deuteronômio 4:29; Jeremias 29:13, makes the latter meaning probable (see also Atos 17:27); but it may be suggested that the very omission of an object was intended to be suggestive in its abruptness. “They would find...;”what they found would depend upon themselves. A possible construction is that they (the enemy) may find them (the people besieged), but this is hardly the natural sequel of the exile of which the previous words speak.