From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.

(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…

Oh, that I had ...! —Literally, as before, Who will give ... ?

A lodging place o…

He mourned because of the doom that awaited them; but he equally mourned because of the sin that would bring that doom upon them. He wished that he…

Here the Prophet entertains another wish: He had before wished that his head were waters, that he might shed tears, and he had wished his eyes to b…

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men Such as travellers take up with in a desert, when they a…

Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…

1. Here, he shows their obstinacy in sins that are directly against their neighbor.

First, he speaks of his own compa ion regarding t…