Jeremiah 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Ver. 6. Neither said they.] In their minds, or with their mouths. That signal deliverance was obliterated, and even lost upon them. Plerique omnes sumus ingrati. a

Through a land of deserts and of pits.] Per terrain campestrem et sepulchralem, where we talked of making our graves; neither was it any otherwise likely, but that God gave us pluviam escatilem et petram aquatilem, b all manner of necessaries.

a Cicero.

b Tertul.

Jeremiah 2:6

6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?