Correct you - Or, “chastise you.” Alliances with foreign powers shall bring trouble and not safety.

Your own wickedness. —The tone is now of a higher mood, and rises from what is local and temporary to the eternal law of retributi…

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, tha…

Here again, the Prophet confirms what I have previously stated—that the people would eventually find, willingly or unwillingly, what it was to depa…

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee That is, either their wickedness in going to Egypt and Assyria, and the ill succe…

Is Israel a servant? No, they are the seed of Abraham.

1. Here, the prophet magnifies their guilt by noting the stubbornness of their minds.

He does this for two reasons: first, because the…