Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me...? — Better, Hast thou not from this time cried unto me...? The prophet paints with a stern irony the parade of the surface repentance of Josiah’s reign. There had been a pathetic appeal to God as the forgiving husband of the faithless wife, but not the less had the wife returned to her wickedness.
Guide. — The same word as in Proverbs 2:17; the “chief friend,” as applied to the husband.