Rather, why—“for what reason”—should I pardon you?

When... – Or, “though I bound them to me by oath, yet they committed adul…

When I had fed them to the full. —The reading of the Hebrew text gives, though I had bound them by oath, namely, by the covenant,…

There is here what rhetoricians call a conference, for God seems here to seek the judgment of the adverse party, with whom He contends, on the caus…

How shall I pardon you for this ? &c.] Because of their manifold transgressions, and multiplied backslidings; or "wherefo…

None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises.

The…

1. Here, he discu es their sins specifically:

• First, the sins of the subjects.
• Second, the sins of the rulers, mention…