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A stone; idol; a metonymy of the matter, because idols are made of these materials, Dan_5:4.
Brought me forth; or, begotten me; so is the word used, Gen_4:18. This notes the sottish stupidity of this people, to take a lifeless stock or stone to be their maker, and to give the honour of God unto them, Isa_44:17. They that make them are like unto them, as senseless as they, Psa_115:8.
They have turned their back unto me, and not their face; they turn their faces wholly towards their idols: it notes the openness of their apostacy, Jer_7:24.
Arise, and save us; the usual language of God’s children in distress, Psa_3:7, and often elsewhere; then they found the vanity of their idols, and their own folly in relying on them, that cannot help or save, and rejecting me, Jer_2:31, then they will come to me, Jud_10:10 Hos_5:15; the same thing with finding her in her month, Jer_2:24; herein abusing God’s gentleness, making him their necessity, not their choice.