Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 8:2

2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buryed; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Not gather them together into charnel houses as we usually do out of humanity, but scatter them about as it were to be turned into dust and dung.

viz. All the rest of the Stars, to shew that they should not lye out in the day time onely, but night also, before the Moon and Stars chap. 36.30. their Carcases shall be cast to their Idols, Lev. 26.30. 2 Kings 23.14, 20. a kind of Lex talionis, that as they had served, and worshipped these Creatures, God doth as it were appoint them as spectators, and witnesses of his vengeance, and what contempt he pours upon them, their Carcases being brought before their Idols, which will be so shameful, as if one should draw forth the Adulteress, with the Adulterer into open view, and expose them together, and it also insinuates the inability that is in these dumb Idols to help them in their misery.

This and the following terms serve to express the greatness and variety of their affection and zeal in their worshipping of them, Deut. 4.19. 2 Kings 23.5. chap. 7.18. he multiplies words, as it were implying, that there can hardly be words enough to express their folly and madness, the Gentiles worshipping these Creatures, not only for their beauty and lustre, but according to their an[illegible: 1 letter]ient Philosophy apprehending them to have been living Creatures, and that all events were ordered by them.

On the superficies of it, there shall be no care taken of them, but they shall lye in the open Country in the Air, till they rot into dung or dry into dust, as in the beginning of the verse, see Psal. 83.10. chap. 9.22. they shall be ignominious even after death.