Therefore the Lord shall have no joy... — The Hebrew tenses are in the past, The Lord had no joy. The severity of the coming judgment is represented as not sparing even the flower of the nation’s youth, the widows and orphans who were the special objects of compassion both to God and man. The corruption of the time was universal, and the prophet’s formula, “For all this his anger is not turned away ...” tolls again like the knell of doom.
Folly. — Better, blasphemy or villainy.