Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:17

17 Hast thou not procured this unto thy self , in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way ?

Here God by his Prophet shews, that they may thank themselves for all, that is hastening upon them, see Numb. 32.23.

Here he shews wherein, viz. in forsaking God▪ not that he left them, but they him, and that without any temptation, or provocation, and therefore the more inexcusable.

Viz. By the conduct of his Providence in the Wilderness, keeping thee in safety from all dangers, Exod. 30.21, 22. Isa. 63.12, 13. or in the way of his counsels, which the ways of their own carnal wisdom were so opposite unto.