Psalms 106:39 - Exposition

Thus were they defiled with their own works. The heathen "works," which they adopted from them ( Psalms 106:35 ), had become "their own works," and made them a "defiled" and "polluted" people. And went a-whoring with their own inventions; i.e. "became spiritually adulterous," deserted God, and were unfaithful to him (comp. Ezekiel 23:2-21 ; Hosea 2:2-5 ).