Jeremiah 9:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Oh, that I had...! — Literally, as before, Who will give...?

A lodging place of wayfaring men. — i.e., a place of shelter, a khan or caravanserai, such as were built for travellers, such, e.g., as the “inn” of Genesis 42:27, the “habitation” of Chimham (Jeremiah 41:17), which the son of Barzillai had erected near Bethlehem, as an act of munificent gratitude to his adopted country (2 Samuel 19:40). In some such shelter, far from the cities of Judah, the prophet, with a feeling like that of the Psalmist (Psalms 55:6-8) would fain find refuge from his treacherous enemies — “adulterers,” alike spiritually and literally (Jeremiah 5:8).

Jeremiah 9:2

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.