Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Ver. 25. Withhold thy foot from being unshod, &c.] Cease thy vain vagaries to the wearing out of thy shoes, and exposing thyself to extreme thirst; or rather take a timely course to prevent captivity, and the miseries that attend it. Isaiah 20:2 ; Isaiah 20:4 ; Isa 47:2
But thou saidst, There is no hope,] viz., Of reclaiming us; we are resolved on our course, and will take our swing in sin whatsoever come of it. Isaiah 28:14,15 ; Isa 57:10 Some grow desperately sinful, saith a reverend modern writer, a like those Italian senators that, despairing of their lives, when upon submission they had been promised their lives, yet being conscious of their villany made a curious banquet, and at the end thereof, every man drank up his glass of poison and killed himself; so men, feeling such horrible hard hearts, and privy to such notorious sins, they cast away souls and all for lust, and so perish woefully, because they lived desperately and so securely.
a Mr Shepherd's Sincere Convert, 222.