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Wander, like sheep, feeding in the deserts; or shall be shepherds, i.e. shall live like the shepherds of Arabia, in tents, and removing from place to place, having no certain dwelling.
Forty years, i.e. so long as to make up the time of your dwelling in the wilderness forty years, as appears from Num_33:8 Deu_1:3 2:14. Compare Amo_5:25. It is manifest that one whole year and part of another were past before this sin or judgment.
Your whoredoms, i.e. the punishment of your whoredoms, to wit, of your apostacy from, and perfidiousness against, your Lord, who was your Husband, and had married you to himself. See Jer_3:14. Whence idolatry is called whoredom.