This short chapter contains a single simile and its application, designed to show that Israel, having failed to fulfill the purpose for which they …

The Prophet’s intention is to humble the foolish confidence of the people, who boasted of the gratuitous kindness of God, as if they were naturally…

Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work ?
&c.] The carpenter and joiner, the house or ship builder, are employed …

Jerusalem like an unfruitful vine.

If a vine is fruitful, it is valuable. But if it is not fruitful, it is worthless and useless; it is cast…