Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:25

25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod , and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope . No, for I have loved strangers , and after them will I go .

Good counsel given them by the Prophet to tarry at home, either, that they do not go a gadding after their spiritual, or corporal Adulteries. Or seek forreign aids, thereby to wear out their shooes, a Metonymy of the Effect, Iosh. 9.13. Or that thou put not off thy shooes to go into the bed of lust, or uncover thy [illegible: 1 letter]eet, a modest Hebrew expression, as also of other Languages for exposing thy nakedness, Ezek. 16.25. Or take not those courses, that will reduce thee to poverty to go bare-foot, and bare-legged, and to want wherewith to quench thy thirst, as in the next clause, Prov. 6.26. Isa. 20.2, 4. See Isa. 5.13.

She seems to return a cross answer, the word pointing at somewhat that is desperate, Eccle. 2.20. it either expresseth the desperateness of their condition. q. d. we are as bad as we can be, and there is no hope, that God should receive us into favour, or else by way of interrogation; is there no hope? May we not hold on still, and prosper? Must we desist from our wayes? No we will not, but we will go after other Gods and they shall defend us, Isa. 57.10. and chap. 18.12. Or, the desperateness of their resolution upon it, q. d. We care not since there is no remedy, you lose your labour to go about to reclaim us, which agrees with the next clause.

Viz. Idols, or strange Gods.

Come what will of it.

Marginal references: Or, is the case desperate.