en_tn_condensed/jer/03/02.md

Lift up your eyes

"Look up"

Is there any place where you have not had illicit sex?

"As a whore sleeps with many men, you have worshiped your idols everywhere!" He uses this question to tell the Israelites that he knows that they have worshiped idols everywhere.

By the roadsides you sat waiting for your lovers

"Like a prostitute waiting at the roadside for her lovers, you were eager to worship any idol you learned about"

as an Arab in the wilderness

"like an Arab in the wilderness waiting for people he might rob"

an Arab in the wilderness

"a robber in the wilderness". Some Arabs lived as nomads in the desert and would rob others who came near them.