Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

Vers. 7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers shall be together (saith the Lord)^* which have burnt incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their old work into their bosom.

Vers. 7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers shall bee together (saith the Lord)^* which haue burnt incense vpon the mountaines, and blasphemed mee vpon the hilles: therefore will I measure their old worke into their bosome.

1. *Or, for they.

Here he amplifies that which he said in few words in the former verse.¹ For he shows that it was not of yesterday that the Jews were guilty of such a disloyalty; but that it is the example of their fathers, whose steps they now followed: even as heretofore the Lord complained that he had a long time forborne this people, and was so weary at last, that he could bear them no longer. Thus then the Prophet aggravates their sin, when he tells the Jews that they have followed the example of their fathers. As if he should say; such birds, such eggs. For if men have been often and diligently admonished, their obstinacy is so much the more to be condemned, if they repent not. Here we see that after they had rejected all admonitions and threatenings, they persevered many years in their corruptions and impieties, which is here laid to their charges, that they should no longer plead their excuses to cover their faults withal; but that they should rather labour to confess themselves worthy of most exquisite torments.

HEere he amplifies that which hee said in few words in the former verse.¹