And I, I too have given you - Such had been their gifts to God, worthless, because lacking that which alone God requires of His cre…

Cleanness of teeth is, by the poetic parallelism, identified with a lack of bread, the former phrase being a graphic representatio…

The Prophet here again pours contempt on the perverse confidence in which the Israelites had become hardened. They indeed thought that their worshi…

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
cities
Meaning a famine, hav…

See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labor for that which does not satis…