She hath wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum [shall be] in the fire.
Ver. 12. She hath wearied herself with lies.] With seeking and trusting to lying vanities, creature comforts. Others render it, She hath wearied me with lies - i.e., With false promises of amendment; others, Frustra sudatum est, Pains is taken with them to no purpose.
And her great scum went not forth out of her.] But is sodden into her partly, and partly sodden over into the fire. A godly man cleareth himself of sin, as spring water worketh itself clean; as the sea will endure no poisonous thing, but casteth it upon the shore; as the sweet water, made brackish by the coming in of the salt water, gets to be sweet again, so do God's people work out brackish and sinful dispositions, &c. The good heart admitteth not the mixture of any sin; though sin may cleave to it as dross doth to silver, yet, like right wine or honey, as the scum ariseth, still it casteth it out; so here.