Jer 4:27, 5:10 | JFB | e4.org | 27. full end —utter destruction: I will leave some hope of restoration ( ; compare ).

‏ Jeremiah 4:27

27. full end—utter destruction: I will leave some hope of restoration (Jer 5:10, 18; 30:11; 46:28; compare Le 26:44).

‏ Jeremiah 5:10

10. Abrupt apostrophe to the Babylonians, to take Jerusalem, but not to destroy the nation utterly (see on Jer 4:27).

battlements—rather, tendrils [MAURER]: the state being compared to a vine (Jer 12:10), the stem of which was to be spared, while the tendrils (the chief men) were to be removed.