The sense is: God’s prophet has declared that a great national calamity is near. Make inquiries, stand in the ways, and ask the passersby. Your…

Stand you in the ways. —In the prophet’s mind, the people were as a traveler who has taken a self-chosen path and finds t…

The Prophet teaches us here that the fault of the people could not be lessened as if they had sinned through ignorance, for they had been warned mo…

Thus says the Lord, stand you in the ways, and see
These are the words of the Lord to the people, whom he would have…

When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. Their hearts were set on the world, and they were w…

1. Here, the author addresses their disobedience.