But I scattered them - Rather, “And I will scatter them.” The saying continues what God had said that He had said, and which had come to pas…

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

Now, in the next chapter, the prophet goes on to speak not so much of the people's sin as of God's resolve to have mercy upon them. He speaks with …

Here the Prophet concludes what he had been speaking of God’s vengeance, by which he had fully proved, that the sins of that nation had arrived at …

But I scattered them with a whirlwind; Denoting the fierceness of his wrath, and the strength of his fury, seen in their …

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…