For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
For the Lord hath called thee - i:e., recalled thee: the prophetic past for the future.
As a woman forsaken - that had been forsaken.
And a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God - or, 'when she was rejected:' (ki thimmaees) one who had been a wife of youth (Ezekiel 16:8; Ezekiel 16:22; Ezekiel 16:60; Jeremiah 2:2) at the time when (thou, or) she was rejected for infidelity (Maurer). 'A wife of youth, but afterward rejected' (Lowth).