Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Image from travellers who have lost their road, stopping and inquiring which is the right way on which they once had been, but from which they have wandered.
old paths—Idolatry and apostasy are the modern way; the worship of God the old way. Evil is not coeval with good, but a modern degeneracy from good. The forsaking of God is not, in a true sense, a "way cast up" at all (Jeremiah 18:15; Psalms 139:24; Malachi 4:4).
rest— (Isaiah 28:12; Matthew 11:29).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 6:16:
Song of Solomon 1:8
Isaiah 3:12
Isaiah 28:12
Jeremiah 6:18
Jeremiah 18:15
Jeremiah 44:16
Hebrews 4:10
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