Israel is not used here for the ten tribes, but for the whole house of Jacob, of which Judah was now the representative.

Mighty – “pe…

O house of Israel. —Apparently, as there is no contrast with Judah, in its wider sense, as including the whole body of th…

See how, in the midst of his wrath, God remembers mercy. He utters a terrible sentence concerning transgressors, and then he pauses, and says, "Nev…

The Prophet shows here how the people would become like straw or dry wood, for God would bring a sure calamity which they did not fear.

But …

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far From Babylon, as in (Jeremiah 4:16). O house of Israe…

Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not w…

1. Here, he discu es their sins specifically: