Vain was the boisterous service spoken of in Jeremiah 3:23. It is not merely without profit, but most hurtful.

the shameful thing Heb. Bosheth(shame), a word frequently substituted for Baal, when the latter had come to have idolatrous and therefore shameful associations. Cp. Jeremiah 11:13, where the two are identified, also Hosea 9:10; so too Jerubbaal (Judges 6:32) = Jerubbesheth (2 Samuel 11:21); Eshbaal (1 Chronicles 8:33) = Ishbosheth (2 Samuel 2:8).

their sons and their daughters See on Jeremiah 5:17, and cp. 2Ki 16:3; 2 Kings 21:6.

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