Jeremiah 2:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I remember thee, &c.— "I remember my first kindness to thee, when I delivered thee from the bondage of Egypt, and espoused thee to myself, to be my own peculiar people." See Isaiah 54:5. Instead of a land that was not sown, Houbigant reads, in an uncultivated land. The discourse which begins here reaches to the 6th verse of the 3rd chapter, wherein the prophet, after setting forth the infinite goodness of God toward his people, inveighs in the strongest manner against the crimes which then reigned in Judaea.

Jeremiah 2:2

2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindnessa of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.