They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Ver. 4. They have said, Come, &c.] The wicked have their Come, Proverbs 1:11, as well as the saints, Isaiah 2:3; Isa 2:5 Zechariah 8:21, but for a worse purpose.
Let us cut them off] "Them," by way of contempt, as not worth naming, they were so base. The devil and his imps would utterly root out the Church; but that cannot be, Jer 31:36 Matthew 16:18 .
That the name of Israel, &c.] But Israel hath still a name, when Moab, Ammon, Edom, &c., live but by fame only. See Jeremiah 48:2 .