And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ver. 9. And they that escape of you shall remember me.] Here beginneth that true repentance never to be repented of. Psalms 22:27 ; Psa 20:7
Because I am broken off from their whorish heart,] i.e., I am troubled, saith Piscator. I am tired out, saith Zegedine, and made to break off the course of my kindness. I am broken off from their whorish heart - so Polanus rendereth it; that is, saith he, I leave them, though loath to do it: the breach is merely on their part; for they have an impetus, a spirit of whoredoms in them, that causeth them to err, and go whoring from under their God. Hosea 4:12 ; Hos 9:1
And with their eyes.] Those windows of wickedness through which the devil (who is ειδωλοχαρης, as saith Synesius) doth oft wind himself into the soul.
And they shall loathe themselves.] a They shall displease themselves, saith the Vulgate; but that is not enough. Pudefient in faciebus suis, say others. They shall bleed inwardly, and blush outwardly, deeply detesting their former abominations, and not waiting till others condemn them, they shall condemn themselves.
a κοψονται. - Sept.