John Trapp on Jeremiah 2:24

Ver. 24. A wild Aſſe uſed to the wilderneſſe] Untamable, and untractable, Job 39.8. eſpecially when proud, and in the heat of luſt, as theſe were after their Idols.

That ſnuffeth up the wind] When ſhe windeth the male: ſo this people when acted by a ſpirit of fornications.

In her moneth they ſhall finde her] i. e. In her laſt moneth, when ſhe is ſo big with young, that ſhe cannot weild her ſelf. So ſinners be they never ſo ſtubborn, ſo ſtiff and high in the inſtep, that there's no dealing with them, yet when they are in ſtraits and diſtreſſes, it will be otherwiſe. God, ſaid Mr. Marbury, is fain to deal with wicked men, as men do with frisking jades in a paſture, that cannot be taken up till gotten to a gate: ſo till he ſeize upon them by ſome judgement or ſummons to dye, &c.