Wesley Corpus

Set mine oil - In lamps to burn before them. For a sweet savour - To gain the favour of the idol. Thus it was - All which is undeniable. And those - These very children of mine hast thou destroyed. Sacrificed - Not only consecrating them to be priests to dumb idols; but even burning them in sacrifice to Molech. Devoured - Consumed to ashes. Is this - Were thy whoredoms a small matter, that thou hast proceeded to this unnatural cruelty For them - For the idols. In every street - Idol temples were in every street; both in Jerusalem and her cities. At every head of the way - Not content with what was done in the city, she built her idol temples in the country, wherever it was likely passengers would come. Great of flesh - Naturally of a big, make, and men of great stature. How weak - Unstable, like water. An imperious woman - A woman, that knows no superior, nor will be neither guided nor governed. Not as an harlot - Common harlots make gain of their looseness, and live by that gain; thou dost worse, thou lavishest out thy credit, wealth, and all, to maintain thine adulterers. Contrary - Here we may see, what the nature of men is, when God leaves them to themselves: yea, tho' they have the greatest advantage, to be better, and to do better. Blood - Thou gavest the blood of thy children to idols in sacrifice; I will give thee thine own blood to drink. My jealousy - The jealousy whereto you have provoked me, will never cease, 'till these judgments have utterly destroyed you, as the anger of an abused husband ceases in the publick punishment of the adulteress. No more angry - I will no more concern myself about thee. The mother - Old Jerusalem, when the seat of the Jebusites, or the land of Canaan, when full of the idolatrous, bloody, barbarous nations. Her daughter - Jerusalem, or the Jews who are more like those accursed nations in sin, than near them in place of abode. Thou - The nation of the Jews. Thy mother's daughter - As much in thy inclinations, as for thy original. Loatheth - That was weary of the best husband. Thine elder sister - The greater for power, riches, and numbers of people.