But they gave a backsliding shoulder - Like a restive animal, which would not endure the yoke, dull and stupid as the beasts: as Hosea says,…

The prophet implies that true fasting is to loose the bands of wickedness and leave off oppression. But Israel had adopted quite the oppos…

And rightly so. When God requires what is so just and so commendable, and people will not yield to it, and will not even hear about it, they deserv…

The Prophet here, by referring to the fathers, more sharply reproves the Jews of his age, for he saw that they differed little from their fathers.<…

But they refused to hearken. That is, the Jews, before the captivity, refused to give heed to the above exhortations, and…

God's judgments upon Israel in the past for their sins were written to warn Christians. The duties required are not keeping fasts and offering sacr…