Misused his prophets — Rather, “scoffed at his prophets.” The allusion is to verbal mockery, not to persecution.

But they mocked. — And they were mocking, mal’îbîm; only here (an Aramaism).

Misused. — Mitta…

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words ,
&c.] Which was the treatment Jeremiah and Ezekiel fr…

The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem occurred gradually. The methods God uses to call sinners back by his word, by ministers, by conscience, by providen…