Only acknowledge... — This was the one sufficient, indispensable condition of pardon — the confession that kept nothing back, and made no vain excuses.
Hast scattered thy ways. — The phrase is a strong one, thou hast left traces of thy way everywhere, i.e., hast gone this way and that in search of new and alien forms of worship. The “green tree” as before (Jeremiah 2:20) was the familiar scene of the hateful worship.