Rebuke. — Rather, chastisement (Hosea 5:9). The verb means to give judgment, punish, &c. It occurs in the next verse, “will reprove the words,” or rather, punish for the words.
Blasphemy. — Comp. Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 5:24, where the cognate verb is used; and Nehemiah 9:18; Nehemiah 9:26, where the noun “provocations” is almost identical.
The children are come ... — With this proverb, expressive of the utter collapse of all human resources, comp. the similar language of Hosea (Hosea 13:13).