2:26 Yahweh had uncovered Israel's sins and had shamed her, as when someone exposes a thief. All her leaders were objects of shame because they led the people in apostasy (cf. v. 8).
2:27 The leaders had advocated worshipping the creation rather than the Creator and had promoted the worship of Asherah poles and stone pillars. These were phallic symbols in Canaanite religion that represented the powers of creativity and fertility.86Instead of looking to the Lord they had turned their backs on Him. Still, when trouble came, they would cry out to Yahweh to save them.
2:28 Let your idols save you then, the Lord responded. Obviously they could not save themselves since the people made the gods; the gods had not made the people and so could not help them. Wood and stone cannot arise to save, and neither can the idols made from these materials. The number of idols in Judah in Jeremiah's day was the same as the number of her cities. This is a hyperbolic way of saying that idolatry was rampant throughout the land.
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