Jeremiah 9:14

“But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, etc.] What their own hearts devised, chose, and were best pleased with; (See Gill on “<240724>Jeremiah 7:24”), and after Baalim; the idols of the Gentiles; these they served and worshipped, and not the true God: which their fathers taught them; which was so far from excusing them, that it was an aggravation of their sin, that they had continued in their wicked ways and idolatrous practices, from age to age, from one generation to another. This then was the cause of their calamity and destruction; they had forsaken the law of the Lord, and had broken that; they had chose their own ways, and had been guilty of idolatrous practices time…”

“(Jer 7:24). Baalim--plural of Baal, to express his supposed manifold powers. fathers taught them-- (Gal 1:14; Pe1 1:18). We are not to follow the errors of the fathers, but the authority of Scripture and of God [JEROME].”

“The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah 6:3). So that none can ... - Or, “They are parched up, with no man to pass through them; neither do they hear the voice of cattle; from the birds of the heaven even to the beasts they “are fled, they are gone.” Jeremiah 9:11 Dragons - Rather, jackals. Jeremiah 9:12 For what the land perisheth ... - This is the question proposed for consideration. The prophet calls upon the wise man to explain his question; that question being, Wherefore did the land perish? He follows it by the assertion of a…”

“walked: Jer 3:17, Jer 7:24; Gen 6:5; Rom 1:21-24; Eph 2:3, Eph 4:17-19 imagination: or, stubbornness which: Jer 44:17; Zac 1:4, Zac 1:5; Gal 1:14; Pe1 1:18 Jeremiah 9:15”