Jeremiah 2:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thy own wickedness shall correct thee The miseries that your own sins have brought upon you, one would suppose, might be sufficient to reclaim you from your evil courses, and induce you to return to God, by a sincere repentance, Hosea 2:7. Know therefore Upon the whole matter; and see that it is an evil thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God For that is the thing that makes thine enemies, enemies indeed, and thy friends, friends in vain. The sense of the clause is, Call to mind what thou hast found by experience, and reflect seriously upon it, and thou canst not but be convinced how dear the forsaking of God hath cost thee. And that my fear Or, the fear of me; or, that thou hast not my fear in thee, saith the Lord Consider this well, for it is the ground of all thy sin and suffering, in order that thy correction may not end in thy utter ruin. This whole discourse of Jeremiah is a kind of pleading, wherein the prophet maintains the cause of God against his people.