Jeremiah 3:2 - Exposition

Lift up thine eyes , etc. No superficial reformation can be called "returning to Jehovah." The prophet, therefore, holds up the mirror to the sinful practices which a sincere repentance must extinguish. The high places ; rather, the bare hills (comp. on Jeremiah 2:20 ). In the ways hast thou sat for them. By the roadside (comp. Genesis 38:14 ; Proverbs 7:12 ). As the Arabian in the wilderness . So early was the reputation of the Bedouin already won (comp. 6:1-40 .). Jerome ad loc . remarks, " Quae gens latrociniis dedita usque hodie incursat terminos Palaestinae ."