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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 2:20 - 2:20
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I - the Hebrew should be pointed as the second person feminine, a form common in Jeremiah: “Thou hast broken,” etc. So the Septuagint, and the sense requires it.
thy yoke ... bands - the yoke and bands which I laid on thee, My laws (Jer 5:5).
transgress - so the Keri, and many manuscripts read. But the Septuagint and most authorities read, “I will not serve,” that is, obey. The sense of English Version is, “I broke thy yoke (in Egypt),” etc., “and (at that time) thou saidst, I will not transgress; whereas thou hast (since then) wandered (from Me)” (Exo 19:8).
hill ... green tree - the scene of idolatries (Deu 12:2; Isa 57:5, Isa 57:7).
wanderest - rather, “thou hast bowed down thyself” (for the act of adultery: figurative of shameless idolatry, Exo 34:15, Exo 34:16; compare Job 31:10).