Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:5

5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, what iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity , and are become vain ?

God having, as it were on his own behalf, shewn how kind he had been, calls upon them to speak now, if they knew any thing of injury, either in breach of Covenant, or severity, that they can charge him with, that they have thus Apostatized, see on Isa. 1.18▪ and 5.3. compare Mich. 6.2, 3, 4. by this manner of speech, his proceeding appears the more justifiable, he both makes their conviction the clearer, and the reproof the sharper.

Viz. Idols shewing their folly in going from God to such vain things, as Idols are Deut. 32.21. 1 Sam. 12.20, 21. and see on Isa. 41.29. the abstract for the concrete, Eccl. 1.2.

Viz. In following their imaginations, fools, Rom. 1.21, 22. as senseless as their stocks, and stones, that they made their Idols of, Psal. 115, 8. and herein they are said to go far from God, and chuse their delusions, Ion. 2.8.