Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:2

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way-faring men: that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

He proceeds in his Lamentation, which in the former verse he did by way of Compassion, in this in a way of Indignation, wishing for some retiring place or sorry shed, or night-Cottage; See on Isa. 24.20. though it were but some mean and sorry Hutt in the wilderness as David, Psal. 55.6, 7. such as might but she[illegible: 1 letter]ter him from the injuries of the weather; LXX in some remotest station or corner, where he might not be an eye-witness of their Miseries to grieve him so at the heart, Psal. 119.136, 158. See 2 Pet. 2.7, 8. and where he might hope to find better entertainment from the savage beasts, than from his own Country-men.

i. e. For the most part, chap. 5.8. both properly, and metaphorically being full of all Idolatrous practices, or there is no integrity found among them.

That deal per [illegible: 1 letter]idiously with God and Man in all the concerns they are conversant about, Isa. 1.4. and though the word here for Assembly is most ordinarily used for an holy Assembly, Lev. 23.36. Num. 29.35. which causeth some to understand it of their being most vile, when they should be most devout; yet here it most natu [illegible: 2 letters]lly signifies a kind of combination among them, as such that [illegible: 1 letter]ave conspired one among another to act all manner of Villanies.

Marginal references: chap. 5.7, 8.