Broken — The bondage and tyranny that thou wert under in old time in Egypt, as also divers times besides. Tree — Under these shades idolaters thought there lay some hidden deity. Wanderest — The word properly signifies, making hast from one tree to another, or from one idol to another. Playing — Committing idolatry, which is a spiritual harlotry, Jeremiah 3:1-2.
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Jeremiah 2:20
20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress;e when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.