A question of bitter irony. Things are made for some use. Now is the time for your deities to prove themselves real by being useful. When every cit…

Where are your gods ...? —The question is asked in indignant scorn. “You made the gods, and yet they cannot profit you.” Though every city…

So far from accepting God's rebukes in the right spirit, and forsaking their idol gods, they even turned upon the Lord's messengers and put his pro…

The Prophet here confirms what he had previously said about the perverse wickedness of the people. He shows that he had not said without reason tha…

But where are your gods that you have made you ? &c.] This is, or would be, the Lord's answer to them, what is become of …

Despite all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. People are often as much under the power of their un…

1. Here, he removes their excuses.

   1. They might bring up the neglect of the farmer. Against this, he says, I have planted…