Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols [wherewith] they had polluted it:
Ver. 18. For the blood which they had shed.] These two gross sins are instanced, viz., murder and idolatry, lest they should plead, as in Jeremiah 2:35, "I have not sinned"; or as in Hosea 12:8, "In all my works they shall find none iniquity in me; that were sin."