The prophet now describes the idolatries of the time of the Kings. The earlier offences in the time of the Judges are not noticed, that being an un…

Did you trust in your own beauty. —Compare to Deuteronomy 32:15; Hosea 13:6. There can scarcely be a more stri…

But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that pa…

Here God begins to remonstrate with his people; and for this purpose, recounts all the benefits which for a long time he had bestowed on the Israel…

But you trusted in your own beauty
As the Jews did in external gifts bestowed upon them; in their outward prosperity…

In this chapter, God's dealings with the Jewish nation and their conduct toward Him are described, along with their punishment through the surround…