Add iniquity to their iniquity; give them up to their own vain minds and vile lusts, and to a reprobate sense, and take off all the restraints of thy grace and providence, and expose them to the temptations of the world and of the devil, that so they may grow worse and worse, and at last may fill up the measure of their sins; as is said, Matthew 12:32: compare Romans 1:28,29. Or, Add punishment to their punishment; as this word is oft taken. Send one judgment upon them after another, without ceasing. Let them not come into thy righteousness; let them never partake of thy righteousness, i.e. either,
1. Of thy faithfulness, in making good thy promises to them. Or,
2. Of thy mercy and goodness. Or rather,
3. Of thy righteousness, properly so called, of that everlasting righteousness which the Messiah shall bring into the world, Daniel 9:24, which is called the righteousness of God, Romans 1:17 Philippians 3:9, &c., which is said to be witnessed by the law and the prophets, Romans 3:21, by and for which God doth justify or pardon sinners, and accept them in Christ as righteous persons. For this was the righteousness which the Jews rejected to their own ruin, Romans 10:3, according to this prediction. Thus as the first branch of the verse maketh or supposeth them guilty of many sins, so this excludes them from the only remedy, the remission of their sins. And that justifying rather than sanctifying righteousness is here meant seems most probable from the phrase, which seems to be a judicial phrase, as we read of coming or entering into judgment, Job 22:4, Job 34:23, and into condemnation, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, opposite unto which is this phrase, of coming into justification; or, which is all one, into thy righteousness.