Wherefore will ye plead with me? —The reply of the accuser to the false pleas of the accused. The transgression was too o…

So far from accepting God's rebukes in the right spirit, and forsaking their idol gods, they even turned upon the Lord's messengers and put his pro…

Jeremiah concludes his previous subject here: he says that the Jews gained nothing by protesting their innocence before God or by thinking they cou…

Why will you plead with me ?
&c.] Strive and contend, chide, murmur, and complain, when evil came upon them, as if t…

The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…

Here, he shows their stubbornness, in that they are not corrected by discipline.

1. He is astonished at their excuse: Why do you …