They return, but not to the Most High - God exhorts through Jeremiah, If you will return, O Israel, says the Lord, return to Me ([R…

Like a deceitful bow.— Religious observance has the appearance of a bow with the arrow on the string, apparently aimed at some obj…

The Prophet again assails the perverse wickedness of Israel, and also their fraud and faithlessness. Therefore, he says that they feigned some sort…

They return, [but] not to the most High
To Egypt, and not to Jerusalem, and the temple there, and the worship of it;…

Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of Jehovah. There were…