Jeremiah 2:2

I remember thee, &c.— "I remember my first kindness to thee, when I delivered thee from the bondage of Egypt, and espoused thee to myself, to be my own peculiar people." See Isaiah 54:5. Instead of a land that was not sown, Houbigant reads, in an uncultivated land. The discourse which begins here reaches to the 6th verse of the 3rd chapter, wherein the prophet, after setting forth the infinite goodness of God toward his people, inveighs in the strongest manner against the crimes which then reigned in Judaea.