Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.
Ver. 18. Therefore hear, O ye nations.] For this people will not hear me, though I speak never so good reason. Scaliger a telleth us that the nature of some kind of amber is such that it will draw to itself all kind of stalks of any herb, except basilisk, a herb called capitalis, because it makes men heady, filling their brains with black exhalations. Thus those who by the fumes of their own corrupt wills are grown headstrong, will not be drawn by that which draweth others who are not so prejudicated.
What is among them?] What their sins are; or, Quid in eos - sc., constituerim; what I have resolved to bring upon them; b or, Quae in eis, know, O congregation (of the saints) which art among them.
a Exercit. 140, Num. xii.
b Malitiam eorum, their malice. - Piscat.