Have diminished thine ordinary food - As a husband le ens the things which provide for the luxury of an unfaithful wife, so did the…

Diminished your ordinary food. — This cutting short of the power and prosperity of Israel was a discipline of correction designed to bring…

Here God reproves the hardness of the Jews because admonition did not make them wise. The common proverb aptly says, “fools grow wise only by the r…

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you
His chastising and correcting hand, to show his resentment a…

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