Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:19

19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God , and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

The meaning is, either 1. There needs no further evidence against thee then thine own evil courses, Hos. 5.5. or rather might correct thee, i. e. one would think should be sufficient to reclaim thee. See Hos. 2.7. Or, 2. Thy own wickedness is the cause of thy correction. Or, 3. Thy wickedness will be an evidence, that whatever thou sufferest is just.

The same with the former, but in other words, after the manner of the Hebrews, or a Metonymy of the Effect for the Cause, thou wilt not be perswaded, till thou come to suffer, thou wilt not be instructed, until corrected; or rather, as before, thy many backslidings might teach thee more wisdom, and convince thee of thy folly, so doth the word reprove signifie, Iob 6.25.

i. e. Call to mind thy experiences, and consider well with thy self, and thou canst not but be convinced of those things, what forsaking of God hath cost thee.

Viz. Of punishment principally, so Isa. 45.7. though it be true also of sin: therefore he calls it bitter, because the effect of it will be so, it will be unpleasing, and bitterness in the latter end.

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Or the fear of me, or thou hast not my fear in thee, this being the ground of all thy sin, and suffering, Psal. 36.1. Rom. 3.16, 18.

Marginal references: Isa. 3.9.