Jeremiah 2:6

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?

Neither said they, Where ... The very words which God uses (; ; ) when, as it were, reminding Himself of His former acts of love to Israel as a ground for interposing in their behalf again. When they would not say, Where is Yahweh, etc., God Himself at last said it for them (cf. remark, , above).

Deserts ... pits. The desert between Mount Sinai and Palestine abounds in chasms and pits, in which beasts of burden often sink down to the knees.

A land of the shadow of death - refers to the darkness of the caverns amidst the rocky precipices (, "That great and terrible wilderness").