Your vain thoughts – “Your” iniquitous “thoughts.” “Aven,” the word used here, is especially applied to the sin of idolatry: thus Bethel is …

O Jerusalem. —The prophet’s answer to the cry that comes from the city. In that “washing of the heart,” which had seemed impo ible…

How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from Mount Ephraim. Make mention to…

Here now the Prophet expressly and openly exhorts the people to repent. By commanding Jerusalem to wash her heart from wickedness, that sh…

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness
These are the words of the prophet, or of God by the prophet, showing t…

The fierce conqueror of the neighboring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by fal…

Here, he describes their coming in relation to the end of their march; he makes three points concerning this.