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Jeremiah 3:10

The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 3:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

For all this; i.e. though Judah had seen the punishment of apostate Israel (, ). So Rashi, Naegelsbach, Payne Smith. Most commentators suppose the phrase to refer to Judah's obstinate wickedness (), but this gives a weak sense.

"Judah defiled the land, etc; and yet notwithstanding her repentance was insincere"—this is by no means a natural sequence of ideas. The right exposition increases the probability of the correction proposed at the beginning of .

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