Your own sword has detoured your prophets - An allusion probably to Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16). Death was the usual fate …

Your own sword hath devoured your prophets. — So in the long reign of Manasseh, the prophets who rebuked him had to do so…

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…

Some interpret the beginning of this verse as if the meaning were—that God chastised the Jews on account of their folly, because they accustomed th…

In vain have I smitten your children
Or, "for vanity" {g}; for vain speaking, for making vain oaths and vows; so it …

The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…

Here, he shows their stubbornness, in that they are not corrected by discipline.

1. He is astonished at their excuse: Why do you …