Jeremiah 13:27 - Exposition

I have seen , etc. The Hebrew is again more forcible than the English. It runs, "Thine adulteries and thy neighings," etc. l (this is an exclamation as it were; then more reflectively)," I have seen thine abominations." Neighings ; i.e. passionate craving for illegitimate objects of worship (comp. Jeremiah 2:24 , Jeremiah 2:25 ; Jeremiah 5:8 ). In the fields . The Hebrew has the singular. The "field," as usual, means the open country. Wilt thou not , etc.? rather, How long ere thou be made clean? In Jeremiah 13:23 the prophet had vehemently declared his people to be incorrigible. But, like the tender Hoses, he cannot continue to hold such gloomy thoughts; surely Israel, God's people, must eventually be "made clean!" But this can only be as the result of judicial affliction, and these afflictions will be no slight or transient ones.