And you went to the king — Margin, ‘Respected.’ Jerome renders this, ‘You have adorned yourself with royal ointment, and have m…

You went to the king ... —The alteration of a single letter would give to Molech; and this may be the meaning ev…

For thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou love…

And thou wentest to the king with ointment. Here the Prophet censures another vice closely allied with the former. For ungodliness begets …

And you went to the king with ointment
To the kings of the earth, the singular for the plural, with whom the whore of Rome has…

The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the …

1. The just perishes. Here the prophet shows the difference between those who obey God’s counsels and those who do not, conc…