Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 13:27 - 13:27

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 13:27 - 13:27


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Some think the prophet here reflects upon them for their corporal adulteries, and their madness upon them, which he compareth to the



neighings of horses; but those words



on the hills in the fields in the next clause seem to inform us that he means here only their idolatries, which are in holy writ often compared to adulteries, which are the greatest sins in their kind, the greatest violations of the marriage covenant, and provocations of persons in conjugal relation, and the only cause of lawful divorce. He concludes with pathetical interrogations, intimating that yet there was hope if they would reform; and though. giving over their case almost as desperate, and not knowing what would not be, yet he leaves no means untried, but asks them if it was not yet time, or when such a thing might be hoped for at their hands.