Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
EXPOSTULATION WITH THE JEWS, REMINDING THEM OF THEIR FORMER DEVOTEDNESS, AND GOD'S CONSEQUENT FAVOR, AND A DENUNCIATION OF GOD'S COMING JUDGMENTS FOR THEIR IDOLATRY. (Jer. 2:1-37)
cry--proclaim.
Jerusalem--the headquarters and center of their idolatry; therefore addressed first.
thee--rather, "I remember in regard to thee" [HENDERSON]; "for thee" [MAURER].
kindness of thy youth--not so much Israel's kindness towards God, as the kindness which Israel experienced from God in their early history (compare Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:8, Ezekiel 23:19; Hosea 2:15). For Israel from the first showed perversity rather than kindness towards God (compare Exodus 14:11-12; Exodus 15:24; Exodus 32:1-7, etc.). The greater were God's favors to them from the first, the fouler was their ingratitude in forsaking Him (Jeremiah 2:3, Jeremiah 2:5, etc.).
espousals--the intervals between Israel's betrothal to God at the exodus from Egypt, and the formal execution of the marriage contract at Sinai. EWALD takes the "kindness" and "love" to be Israel's towards God at first (Exodus 19:8; Exodus 24:3; Exodus 35:20-29; Exodus 36:5; Joshua 24:16-17). But compare Deuteronomy 32:16-17; Ezekiel 16:5-6, Ezekiel 16:15, Ezekiel 16:22 ("days of thy youth") implies that the love here meant was on God's side, not Israel's.
thou wentest after me in . . . wilderness--the next act of God's love, His leading them in the desert without needing any strange god, such as they since worshipped, to help Him (Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 32:12). Jeremiah 2:6 shows it is God's "leading" of them, not their following after God in the wilderness, which is implied.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 129:1-2
Song of Solomon 8:5
Isaiah 54:6
Jeremiah 2:5
Jeremiah 2:6
Jeremiah 3:4
Jeremiah 22:21
Ezekiel 16:8
Ezekiel 16:22
Ezekiel 20:21
Joel 1:8
Galatians 4:27
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