Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
These words are not the language of consolation to the conscience-stricken, but of vehement expostulation with hardened sinners. They prove, therefore, the truth of the interpretation put upon the preceding verse.
As the Arabian ... - The freebooting propensities of the Bedouin had passed in ancient times into a proverb. As eager as the desert-tribes were for plunder, so was Israel for idolatry.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 3:2:
Isaiah 41:18
Jeremiah 3:21
Jeremiah 7:29-33
Hosea 2:19
Hosea 3:3
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