Verse 3
3. Rebelling thus they virtually declared God’s proprietorship in them is at an end. So they stand in poor contrast with the stupidest animals. Jeremiah 8:7.
The ox… the ass Dr. Thomson, ( The Land and the Book, vol. ii, p. 97,) describing a scene at the close of a day in Tiberias, says: “No sooner had we got within the walls, than the drove began to disperse. Every ox knew perfectly well his owner, his house, and the way to it, nor did he become bewildered for a moment in the mazes of narrow and crooked alleys. As for the asses, they walked straight to the door, and up to the master’s crib. I followed one company clear into the habitation, and saw each take his appropriate manger, and begin his evening meal.”
Israel The whole nation, Judah as well as Israel. As a covenant people, both were included in a designed unity.
Not know Do not recognise God as their rightful owner.
Not consider The parallelism here is explanatory. My people have lost knowledge of me, and do not attend to the spiritual food which, as their Lord, I fain would give them: just as the master of the “ox” and the “ass” is known, and these stupid animals are fed by him. A comparison the more striking for its homeliness.
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