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Jer 2:25 Strong Concordance Withhold [04513] thy foot [07272] from being unshod [03182], and thy throat [01627] from thirst [06773]: but thou saidst [0559], There is no hope [02976]: no; for I have loved [0157] strangers [02114], and after [0310] them will I go [03212].
  King James Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Withhold, &c.--that is, abstain from incontinence; figuratively for idolatry [HOUBIGANT].

unshod, &c.--do not run so violently in pursuing lovers, as to wear out thy shoes: do not "thirst" so incontinently after sexual intercourse. HITZIG thinks the reference is to penances performed barefoot to idols, and the thirst occasioned by loud and continued invocations to them.

no hope-- (Jer 18:12; Isa 57:10). "It is hopeless," that is, I am desperately resolved to go on in my own course.

strangers--that is, laying aside the metaphor, "strange gods" (Jer 3:13; Deu 32:16).
 
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16 They provoked him to jealousy [07065] with strange [02114] gods, with abominations [08441] provoked they him to anger [03707].
13 Only acknowledge [03045] thine iniquity [05771], that thou hast transgressed [06586] against the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], and hast scattered [06340] thy ways [01870] to the strangers [02114] under every green [07488] tree [06086], and ye have not obeyed [08085] my voice [06963], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
10 Thou art wearied [03021] in the greatness [07230] of thy way [01870]; yet saidst [0559] thou not, There is no hope [02976]: thou hast found [04672] the life [02416] of thine hand [03027]; therefore thou wast not grieved [02470].
12 And they said [0559], There is no hope [02976]: but we will walk [03212] after [0310] our own devices [04284], and we will every one [0376] do [06213] the imagination [08307] of his evil [07451] heart [03820].