on the wheels Jonathan renders: on the wheel. (Formes in French.)

that he was making of clay That he was making of the clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand while it was still wet, and this is an inverted verse.

of its evil for which I spoke concerning it Of its sins for which I spoke concerning it. to uproot and to demolish (depayser [?] in French).

I will repent And I will think another thought.

But they shall say, We despair I know that they will say to you regarding your words that they do not heed them.

disgraceful thing Heb. שַעֲרֻרִת.

Shall one abandon from rocks of the field the snow of Lebanon Shall a man who needs to drink abandon water that flows from the rock in the fields that comes from the snow of the Lebanon, which is clean?

Shall strange cold... water be abandoned? Or shall flowing spring water, which was strange to all people until now, and it is cold, be abandoned? זָרִים means flowing, and this proves it (2 Kings 19:24): “I dug and drank strange water (זָרִים).” Menahem, however, classified with (Isaiah 1:6) “they have not been sprinkled (זֹרוּ), neither have they been bandaged,” an expression of curative water, and he gave a reason for his statement, and he said that if he wished to speak with an expression of זֶרֶם, a stream, he would double the ‘mem,’ and he would add ‘yud’ ‘mem,’ and he would say זְרוּמִים because of the plural number of מַיִם water, and because they are streams (זְרָמִים).

the field like שָדֶה, a field

cold (froids in French).

flowing (courants in French). And we can also interpret it: “Shall it be abandoned to be strange rejected water, the water that is cold running water?”

Heb. זרים According to the first interpretation, it is an expression of a stream [זֶרֶם]. According to the second interpretation, it is an expression of strangeness, i.e., rejected water.)

For so have My people done, that they have forgotten Me and burnt incense to vanity.

ancient paths The proper paths they said that they are a stumbling block, in order to go...[on] a way that is not trodden down Heb. סְלוּלָה.

hissing One who passes by ruins that he already saw with good buildings is accustomed to whistle.

will be astonished will wonder.

upon their back and not their face when they flee from before the enemy.

I will look but I will not save them.

And they said, “Come, etc.” Jeremiah was complaining about the men of Anathoth and saying that they say this.

Torah...from the priest For it is incumbent upon the priests to teach the Torah, as it is stated (Deut. 33:10): “They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob.”

not speech from the prophet I. e., words of prophecy.

Come, let us strike him with the tongue Let us testify falsely against him.

and spill their blood (Bring them down by the sword,) an expression of (Lam. 3:49) “My eye runs (נִגְרָה)”; (Micah 1:4) “Like water that runs (מֻגָרִים).”

by the sword by troops.

and their husbands i.e., the husbands of the widows shall be slain by the angel of death.

for they dug a pit to seize me that they suspected him of intimacy with a married woman, as it is stated (Prov. 23:27): “For a harlot is a deep pit (ֹשוּחָה).”

let not be erased let it not be erased. And because it is a feminine gender, he placed a ‘yud’ therein. This too is superfluous, as the ‘yud’ of (Ezekiel 16:17) “And you played the harlot (וַתִּזְנִי) with them.”