Verse 9
9. “And they… shall remember me… when I have broken for myself their whorish heart.” Havernick and Keil. This seems a better reading than that of the R.V., “I have been broken.” Israel went into Babylonian captivity a nation prone to fall constantly into idolatry. It came out of that fiery furnace a purified people with the whorish heart broken and every polytheistic tendency burned out of it. Up to this point their whole history had been a series of national or tribal apostasies from the true God; from this point onward there is not a single instance of this. From the time of this awful punishment down to the present, the whole nation has heartily sung, in every age:
Thou art One, the first great cause of all;
Thou art One, and none can penetrate,
Not even the wise in heart, the mystery
Of thy unfathomable unity,
Thou art One, the infinitely great.
Ibn Gebirol.
Their eyes “The eyes that hung wantonly on their idols.” Kautzsch. “Ears and hearts were both involved in the sin (Ezekiel 20:7-8; Ezekiel 20:24; Numbers 15:39), and both came under the same chastisement that was to lead them to repentance.” Plumptre.
Loathe themselves Literally, loathe their own faces. (Compare Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31.)
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