Jeremiah 2:29-37 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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The Deserved Punishment. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:29. plead: complain.

Jeremiah 2:30. For your own read the with LXX.

Jeremiah 2:32. attire: properly sash (Isaiah 3:20, RV).

Jeremiah 2:33. trimmest: lit. makest good, i.e. pickest. wicked women: better, evil things, same word as in Jeremiah 3:5; even to evil things hast thou accustomed thy ways.

Jeremiah 2:34 as it stands apparently refers to social injustice (Jeremiah 7:6); men are slain where no excuse of justifiable homicide (mg.) can be offered. But the verse seems corrupt, and the last clause gives no good sense, even if we supply garments with all these.

Jeremiah 2:36. gaddest should be simply goest; ashamed of (bis), rather, put to shame by.

Jeremiah 2:37. The gesture is one of deep sorrow (2 Samuel 13:19). The precise occasion of the political reference in this verse is not known; cf. Isaiah 30:3 ff.

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Jeremiah 2:29-37

29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.