Yet let no man strive, &c.— Let no one expostulate or reprove; for all expostulation and reproof will be lost upon this people, such is their stubbornness and obstinacy.
For thy people are as they that strive, &c.— "It is in vain for you to reproach one another. You are given up as to an incurable malady; for you are as a man who strives with the priests; guilty of the highest degree of rebellion, and incapable of correction, by opposing the authorized interpreter of the law, and the typical intercessor between God and the people. This passage therefore refers to the Mosaic institutions." The law condemned those to death who resisted the authority of the priest, Deuteronomy 17:12. Houbigant renders it, after the LXX, For thy people follow the rebellion of the priest; that is to say, are as wicked as those priests who infamously deserted the service of God for that of idols.