Jeremiah 3:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They say That is, men use to say, If a man put away his wife Or give her a bill of divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1; and she go from him In consequence thereof; and become another man's Engage herself to another; shall he return unto her? He cannot take her again according to the law, Deuteronomy 24:1-4. Or, rather, will a man do such a thing? If the law were not against it, would any man be inclined to take such a woman again? Certainly not. Such playing fast and loose with the marriage-bond would be a horrid profanation of that ordinance, and would greatly pollute the land. Thus they had reason to expect, that God would refuse ever to take them again to be his people, who had not only been joined to one strange god, but had played the harlot with many lovers. If we had to do with a man like ourselves, after such provocations as we have been guilty of, he would be implacable, and we might despair of his ever being reconciled to us again. But he is God and not man, and therefore he adds, Yet return again to me Namely, forsaking all those other lovers; which invitation implies a promise, that he would receive them upon their repentance and reformation.