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Jer_9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Ver. 2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place.] Some sorry shed, such as those worthies had who dwelt in dens and caves of the earth, {Heb_11:38} such as Athanasius had, who lived, say some, six years in a well without the light of the sun, forsaken of friends, and everywhere hunted by enemies; such as the ancient hermits and monks had, who, because they lived in caves and subterranean holes, they were named Mandrites {a} and Troglodites. A godly man desireth to converse as much as may be with God, and as little as may be with men, unless they were better. Lot had little joy of Sodom; {2Pe_2:7-8} Aaron of the Israelites: "Thou knowest," saith he to Moses, "that this people is wholly set upon wickedness"; {Exo_32:22} and indeed so is the whole world. {Job_5:19; Job_2:10} Hence good men are oft put upon David’s wish, "Oh that I had the wings of a dove." {Psa_55:6} Or if that "Oh" will not set them at liberty, they take up that "Woe" of his to express their misery, "Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech." {Psa_120:5} Who will give me a traveller’s lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, whose wicked courses are a continual eyesore and heartbreak unto me?
For they are all adulterers.] Both corporal and spiritual.
An assembly of treacherous.] A pack of perfidious wretches; a rabble of rebels conspiring against heaven. {Isa_1:4}
{a} Mandrae signifieth caves or holes.