Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Ver. 18. Did not your fathers thus] And will ye abet and add to their wicked practices? Will ye needs espouse their sins, as a seed of serpents?
And did not our God bring all this evil upon us?] And that justly, because, Belshazzar like, though we knew all this, yet we rifted up ourselves against the Lord of heaven, as the horse that casteth his rider, and riseth up against him, Daniel 5:22,23. Hath ever any waxed fierce against God, and prospered? Job 9:4. Was not he that but gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day paid home with stones? Was there not for this very sin a fire kindled in the gates of Jerusalem, that devoured the palaces thereof? Jeremiah 17:27. Justly is he made an example that will not take example by others; and it is a sure both presage and desert of ruin not to be warned.
Yet ye bring more wrath] As if ye had a mind to wrestle a fall with the Almighty, and to try for mastery. But do ye provoke the Lord to anger? are ye stronger than he?