I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Ver. 6. I was wroth.] See on Zechariah 1:15 .
I have polluted mine inheritance.] God is his people's inheritance, and they are his; but now, for their sins, he had dealt with them as with a profane and unclean thing.
Thou didst show them no mercy.] Heb., Thou didst set them no bowels. Cruelty cries for vengeance. See Jeremiah 50:17; Jeremiah 51:24 .
Upon the ancient.] Who should have been borne with for their age and weakness.