In their own land; in fullness, case, and security, as in days past they did. They defiled it; brought in much sin and great guilt upon the land, i.e. on themselves who dwelt there, and sinned greatly. By their own way; leaving my law, despising my counsel, forsaking my worship and temple. By their doings; by their carriage and practices in their whole conversation. As the uncleanness, & c.; or as one excommunicate, and cut off from the congregation, because of some great sin. Or, since idolatry is so often compared to fornication and whoredom, possibly it may be here the filthiness of spiritual whoredom. I hated and loathed the filthiness of their ways, as I would the impurity of a whorish woman prostituting herself for gain. The word may include the reward of a whore, as it doth Ezekiel 16:33.
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Ezekiel 36:17
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.