Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 23:10

10 For the land is full of Adulterers , for because of swearing the land mourneth : the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up , and their course is evil, and their force is not right .

Under that term Adulterers, all Species of uncleanness are comprehended.

By false-swearing, or by idle and profane swearing, the land is brought to ruine, the word signifies also a Curse or cursing, many good Interpreters judge, that the more genuine sense and true Translation of this Text were for because of the curse (that is, the Curse of God) the Land is brought to that Misery which is coming upon it.

The pastures of the Wilderness or of the plain, for so the word is rendred, Isa. 63.13. Lam. 4.19. The Wrath of God was extended to all places whether more or less inhabited.

The Prophets did not onely err in single Acts, but the whole course of their actions was naught, and particularly their Power, Rule and Government was not right. If any say what were the Prophets concerned in the Peoples wickedness? Answ. They were profane as well as the people, as we shall find ver. 11. but besides this, the people were thus vile through their connivance, they did not warn the people of their sins, but soothed them up in their wicked courses, so were the cause of the peoples wickedness, who had not been so vile but for them.

Marginal references: chap. 5.7, 8. & 9.2.; Or, cursing.; chap. 9.10. & 12.4.; Or, violence.