Jeremiah (1-31) 30:23 Commentary and Bible Study

These last two verses seem to be directed against the enemies of the people of God in every age. At the time of the captivity, this was Babylon who had forcibly taken the Jews into captivity. The Babylonian empire came to a sudden and complete end at the hands of the Medes and Persians. This was according to the word of the Lord through Isaiah and Jeremiah, that although God would discipline his people using the sword of this pagan nation, they too in turn would be judged. But the words ‘in the latter days ye shall consider it’ point to a distant future also. Not until the fulfilment is seen will the saints fully grasp what God is going to do, and when they see it, they will agree that the anger of the Lord is like a whirlwind. It is a fearful thing to make God our enemy; it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. God will satisfy his fierce anger because it has so long been held back. Once it goes forth there will be no restraint on it. He forgets nothing that the ungodly have thought and said and done.