Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I delighted not.
Ver. 12. Therefore I will number you to the sword.] Est elegans paronomasia: I will give you up to the sword by number and tale, to the end that none of you may escape. God usually retaliateth, and proportioneth number to number. So, choice to choice; Isa 66:3-4 jealousy to jealousy, provocation to provocation; Deu 32:21 device to device; Micah 2:1 ; Mic 2:3 frowardness to frowardness. Psa 18:26
And ye shall all bow down to the slaughter.] As you used to bow down to your idols.
Because when I called, ye did not answer.] See on Proverbs 1:24 .
But did evil before mine eyes.] Did evil things as you could; Jer 3:5 with both hands earnestly. Mic 7:3