For this city hath been to me [as] a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
Ver. 31. From the day that they built it.] Ever since Solomon beautified it, and made it the metropolis. Nevertheless Hegesippus was out, in saying that Jerusalem was so called quasi ιερον Sολομωντος. Solomon made it famous by his magnificence; but odious by his idolatry there.