The same strings, though generally unpleasing ones, are harped upon in this chapter that were in those before. People care not to be told either of their sin or of their danger by sin; and yet it is necessary, and for their good, that they should be told of both, nor can they better hear of either…

Idolatry was the sin that did most easily beset the Jewish nation till after the captivity; the ten tribes from the first were guilty of it, but especially after the days of Ahab; and this is the sin which, in these verses, they are charged with. Observe, I.

We may observe here, 1. The plentiful provision God had made for Israel and the seasonable supplies he had blessed them with : ” I did know thee in the wilderness, took cognizance of thy case and made provision for thee, even in a land of great drought, when thou wast in extreme distress, and when…

The first of these verses is the summary, or contents, of all the rest , where we have, 1. All the blame of Israel’s ruin laid upon themselves: O Israel! thy perdition is thence; it is of and from thyself; or, ” It has destroyed thee, O Israel! that is, all that sin and folly of thine which thou…