Jeremiah 2:23-25
1599 Geneva Bible
23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, neither have I [a]followed Baal? behold thy ways in the valley, and know what thou hast done: thou art like a swift [b]dromedary, that runneth by his ways.
24 And as a wild [c]ass used to the wilderness that snuffeth up the wind by occasion at her pleasure: who can turn her back? all they that seek her, will not weary themselves, but will find her in her [d]month.
25 Keep thou thy feet from [e]bareness, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidest desperately, No, for I have loved strangers, and them will I follow.
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- Jeremiah 2:23 Meaning, that hypocrites deny that they worship the idols, but that they honor God in them, and therefore they call their doings, God’s service.
- Jeremiah 2:23 He compareth the idolaters to these beasts, because they never cease running to and fro: for both valleys and hills are full of their idolatry.
- Jeremiah 2:24 He compareth the idolaters to a wild ass: for she can never be tamed nor yet wearied: for as she runneth she can take her wind at every occasion.
- Jeremiah 2:24 That is, when she is with foal, and therefore the hunters wait their time: so though thou canst not be turned back now from thine idolatry, yet when thine iniquity shall be at the fall, God will meet with thee.
- Jeremiah 2:25 Hereby he warneth them that they should not go into strange countries to seek help: for they should but spend their labor, and hurt themselves, which is here meant by the bare foot and thirst, Isa. 57:10.
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