Do they not provoke ... - literally, Is it not themselves (that they provoke) to the shame of their faces?

Do they not provoke themselves ...? —The interpolated words, though they complete the sense, mar the abrupt force of the Hebrew. <…

Here God first shows why he ought to be implacable towards the people. The command to the Prophet not to pray for them seems at first hearing to be…

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord No: he cannot be provoked to anger as men are; anger does not fall upon him a…

The Jews took pride in showing zeal for their idols. Let us learn to be earnest in the service of our God, even from this bad example. Let us think…

1. Here, he excludes the remedy of prayer.

   First, he presents the decree: neither take up, even when asked by them, an…