Jeremiah 3:8

And I saw, when for all the causes. — Better, perhaps (following a conjectural emendation, which gives a much better sense), And she saw that for all the causes. The technical fulness of the words suggests the thought that they were actually the customary formula with which every writing of divorcement began, recapitulating the offences which were alleged by the husband against the wife. The actual repudiation consisted, of course, in the bitter exile and loss of national life, which Hosea (Hosea 2:1) had predicted under a like figure. Judah had witnessed the sin and the punishment, and yet was following in the same path.