Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:12

12 Be astonished, O ye heavens , at this, and be horribly afraid , be ye very desolate , saith the LORD.

Angels say some, but rather the visible heavenly bodies; a pathetical expression in a poetical Prosopopaeia, as Deut. 4.26. and 32.1. intimating that it is such a thing, that the very inanimate Creatures, could they be sensible of it, would be astonished.

The Heb. imports as much as let your hair be lifted up, such a fright, as we usually say, makes our hair stand an end, such a trembling property, as some dreadful Tempest doth sometimes cause in a man.

Lose your brightness, lustre, and shining, as the Sun that heavenly body seemed to do when Christ suffered, Matth. 27.45. or melting, the heinousness of such a thing, as it were, dissolving them.

Marginal references: Isa. 1.2.