A people that provoked Me to anger
Obstinacy provokes God’s wrath
By rejecting His love with stiff-necked obstinacy, they have incurred wrath, which, though long and patiently restrained, now bursts out with uncontrolled violence.
“The people that continually provokes Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense on the tiles, who sit in vaults and pass the night in retired places, who eat flesh of swine, and broken pieces of abominable things are in their dishes, who say: Halt: Come not too near me! For I am holy to thee,--these are a smoke in My nose, a fire blazing continually.” (F. Delitzsch, D. D.)
Illegal and superstitious cults
The reference to “bricks” remains unexplained; sitting in the graves was for the purpose of obtaining oracles or dreams from the dead - the so-called “incubation.” (A. B.Davidson, D. D.)
“Broth of abominable things”
Such creatures as are enumerated in Isaiah 66:17. The “sacrifices are boiled and yield a magical hell-broth” (W. Robertson Smith)
. (Pro/. J. Skinner, D. D.)