Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?
Ver. 19. Behold, the voice of the cry.] This was it that broke the good prophet's heart, the shrieks of his people.
Is not the Lord in Zion?] a Thus in their distress they leaned upon the Lord, as Mic 3:11 and inquired after him, whom in their prosperity they made little reckoning of.
Why have they provoked me to anger?] q.d., The fault is merely in themselves, who have driven me out from among them by their idolatries.
a Haec est querela hypocritarum. This is the complain of the hypocrites - Oecol.