Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 13:27

27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighings , the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills, in the fields : wo unto thee O Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be ?

Some think the Prophet here reflects upon them for their corporal Adulteries, and their madness upon them, which he compareth to the neighings of horses, but those words on the hills in the fields in the next clause seem to inform us,

That he means here onely their Idolatries which are in holy Writ often compared to Adulteries, which are the greatest sins in their kind, the greatest violations of the Marriage Covenant, and provocations of persons in conjugal Relation, and the onely cause of lawful divorce.

He concludes with pathetical interrogations, intimating that yet there was hope if they would reform, but yet giving over their case almost as desperate and what would not be, yet he leaves no means untried but askes them if it was not yet time, or when such a thing might be hoped for at their hands?

Marginal references: chap. 5.8.; Isa. 65.7. chap. 2.20. Ezek. 6.13.; Heb. after when yet?