Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 32:31

31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger, and of my fury, from the day that they built it, even to this day , that I should remove it from before my face .

Solomon finished the Building of Hierusalem, and he at least suffered Idolatry in it, 1 Kings 11.4.8. People have alwayes been so fond of worshipping God according to their own fancies and inventions, that even in I[illegible: 1 letter]dah (except in David's time) the worship of God could hardly be preserved pure, during the entire Reign of one King.

As if they had done it on purpose to provoke me to destroy the City, and cast the people of it out. Nothing more easie than for people to keep close to the Divine Rule; as to External Acts in Worship, nothing is more provocative of God that their doing the contrary. Yet nothing hath been more rarely done in any Nation, as if men had set themselves to dare a jealous God.

Marginal references: Heb. for my anger.