The contrast between the chaste retirement of a virgin and Judah’s eagerness for idolatry serves to heighten the horror at her conduct.

Ask ye now among the heathen. —The appeal of Jeremiah 2:10-11 is renewed. Judah had not been true, even as heathen nation…

God shows here that the Jews had become completely beyond reform, for they reached the height of impiety when they were so bold as to reject the sa…

Therefore thus says the Lord
This being the case of the people of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own…

Sinners call it liberty to live without restraint, but for a person to be a slave to their lusts is the very worst slavery. They abandoned God for …

1. Here, he speaks of the despair of those who rejected his preaching.

   • First, he mentions their desperation: we have no…