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Either this and the next verse refer to the former, viz. because there are none can give the reason why the land perisheth, therefore God will; or else they refer to Jer_9:15,16, as showing the causes of those judgments threatened; for either of the references do not alter the sense: see Jer_5:19: this verse contains negative reasons.
They have forsaken my law; he chargeth them with their apostacy, and refusing to obey his precepts, and conform their conversation to them.
Which I set before them: lest they should plead they were obscure and hard to be understood, therefore he tells them he had made it plain to them, they could not be ignorant of it, except it were out of wilfulness and obstinacy: the like expression Deu_11:32.