Imaginations - Understand as stubbornness.

Imagination. —Better, as before, stubbornness.

He shows here what we have seen elsewhere—that the people flattered themselves in their vices, so that they could not be turned by any admonitions,…

And you have done worse than your fathers Not only committed the same sins, but greater, or, however, attended with more …

This seems to be the language of those who dispute the word of God and, instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify themselves, as if Go…

Here, he gives the cause of the previously mentioned punishment.

First, he poses the question: why has the LORD spoken all this great…