Lightness - Others render this as in the margin.

Defiled - Rather, profaned. The land especially consecrated to Yahweh’s servi…

The lightness of her whoredom. —Lightness in the ethical sense of “levity.” Apostasy was treated once more as if it had been a lig…

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her t…

Here the Prophet completes his charge: the punishment God inflicted on the Israelites had so little effect on the tribe of Judah that she surpassed…

And it came to pass, through the lightness of her whoredom ,
&c.] Or the "swiftness" ^F2 of it; when it was once set…

If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dre…

Here, the prophet calls them back using the example of the ten tribes, and on this subject, he makes three points.