Jeremiah 2:23

Jeremiah 2:23

21 Yet I had ^aplanted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into ^bthe degenerate plant of an alien vine?

22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is ^amarked before Me,” says the Lord God.

23 “How^a can you say, ‘I am not polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,

24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.

25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ^a‘There is no hope.
No! For I have loved ^baliens, and after them I will go.’

26 “As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,
So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their ^aprophets,

27 Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a ^astone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their ^btrouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Baalim - The word is plural, as comprehensive of all their idols. Thy way - The filthiness thou hast left behind thee, whereby thou mayst be traced. Valley - Whether of Hinnom where they burnt their children in sacrifice, or in any valleys where thou hast been frequent in thy idolatries. Traversing - A metaphor taken from creatures that are hunted, that keep no direct path.

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