The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 9:2

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

A lodging place of wayfaring men; a "khan" or "caravanserai," to use the terms now so familiar from Eastern travel, where "wayfaring men" could at least find shelter, and the means of preparing their provisions.

Comp; besides the parallel passage in Psalms 55:6, Psalms 55:7, our own Cowper's fine reminiscence of Jeremiah: "Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness!" etc. Adulterers … treacherous men (see Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:9; Jeremiah 3:20; Jeremiah 5:11).

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