Will I not hear them. —The time for prayer was past. They had rejected God. And when His wrath came upon them it was too late to t…

This seems to me a confirmation of the last clause. For he had said that they sent forth their boughs or cast them forth, but still to their destru…

Therefore will I also deal in fury
Being provoked by such abominable idolatries, and such horrid insolence, and most…

The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was accompanied by infamous practices; and the sun worshippers described here are thought to have been priests. The…