Jeremiah 2:29-37

The Deserved Punishment. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:29. plead: complain.

Jeremiah 2:30. For your own read the with LXX.

Jeremiah 2:32. attire: properly sash (Isaiah 3:20, RV).

Jeremiah 2:33. trimmest: lit. makest good, i.e. pickest. wicked women: better, evil things, same word as in Jeremiah 3:5; even to evil things hast thou accustomed thy ways.

Jeremiah 2:34 as it stands apparently refers to social injustice (Jeremiah 7:6); men are slain where no excuse of justifiable homicide (mg.) can be offered. But the verse seems corrupt, and the last clause gives no good sense, even if we supply garments with all these.

Jeremiah 2:36. gaddest should be simply goest; ashamed of (bis), rather, put to shame by.

Jeremiah 2:37. The gesture is one of deep sorrow (2 Samuel 13:19). The precise occasion of the political reference in this verse is not known; cf. Isaiah 30:3 ff.