...waters, and' hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no _LfX came to me, saying, 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel teas holiness unto the LORD, and the first-fruits of his increase : all that devour him shall...

...shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord, to my holy mountain Jerusalem. Jere. 2. 2. Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, thus...thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espoused. 3. 17. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations...

...him that I am sick of love. — Cant. v. 8. Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee (or for thy sake), the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness. — Jer. ii. 2. Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved (or ought to love). —...

...only of the patience of Job. And observe God's gracious testimony concerning Israel at this period : " Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus...me in the Wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was, holiness unto the Lord, and the first-fruits of his increase : all that devour him shall...

...cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field." Jer. ii. 2. " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord," Sic. Jonah i. 2. " Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it." Isa. Ixi. ], 2. " The...

...cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field." Jer. ii. 2. " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord," &c. Jonah i. 2. " Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it." Isa. Ixi. 1, 2. " The...

...they filled up, is therefore subsequently referred to in language peculiarly bold and expressive: " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the first-fruits of his increase."* The whole people, then,...

...foreknew the elect or saints, and children and heirs of life. Exod. xxiii. 12. 17. [282] Jer. ii. 2, 3. "I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown." Israel was holiness to the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase. See v.21. "Yet I had planted...

...piety ; as appears by many things said about them ; particularly, Jer. ii. 2, 3. " I remember the®, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals,...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness to the Lord, and the first-fruits of his increase." Here the generation that went...

...4. Thus God speaks to Jerusalem by the mouth of the prophet Jeremiah ; "I remember thee,(saith he) the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown," Jer. ii. 2. The time was, in which your love appeared a kind of transport, and hot as fire ; it could...