Jeremiah 9:7

Jer 9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Ver. 7. Behold, I will melt them and try them. ] I will cast them into the fiery crucible of sharp affliction. A metaphor from metallaries. See Jeremiah 6:29 .

For how should I do for the daughter of my people? ] i.e., How should I do otherwise? What can I do less to them though they are my people, since they are so shamelessly, so lawlessly wicked? An unruly patient maketh a cruel physician; a desperate disease must have a desperate remedy.