Chapter 3 – FAMILIA MUNDIAL
1 [1] Such remarriage of divorced spouses was forbidden by ⇒ Deut 24:1-4. Under this figure the prophet sees the presumption of Judah, the unfaithful spouse, who thinks she can return to the Lord after uniting herself to other gods.
2 [2] An Arab: a marauding nomad who lay in wait for caravans.
3 [14-18] A remnant of Israel (⇒ Jeremiah 3:14) will reunite with Judah (18). The elementary cult of the Lord represented by the ark of the covenant will now be replaced by a more deeply spiritual and universal alliance, symbolized by his throne in the ideal Jerusalem around which all nations will be gathered together (⇒ Jeremiah 3:17).
4 [24] Shame-god: literally, shame, a term commonly substituted for Baal, the Canaanite god with many local shrines.