Jeremiah 2:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Also in thy skirts... — The general meaning is clear, and points to the guilt of Israel in offering her children — the “poor innocents” — in horrid sacrifice to Molech; perhaps, also, to her maltreatment of the prophets. Their “blood” is on the “skirts” of her raiment; perhaps, if we take another reading, on the “palms” of her hands. The last clause is, however, obscure enough. We have to choose, according to variations of reading and construction, between (1) I have not found it as by secret search (literally, by digging, as men dig through the wall of a house in search of plunder), but under every oak or terebinth, or, more probably, as in the Authorised version, upon all these — i.e., the sin was patent, flagrant, everywhere; and (2) Thou didst not find them (those who had been put to death) in the place of breaking through — i.e., in the act of the robber that would have deserved death (Exodus 22:2; Job 24:16); but because of all this — i.e., thou didst slay them through thy passion for idolatry. Of these (1) commends itself most.