Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee. The consequent judgments are herein set forth, which, however, proved of no avail in reforming the people (Isaiah 9:13; Jeremiah 5:3).
Delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines - (in the days of King Ahaz, 2 Chronicles 28:18-19).
The daughters of the Philistines are Philistia and its inhabitants: just as "the daughter of Zion" means Jerusalem, and its inhabitants.
Which are ashamed of thy lewd way. The Philistines were less wanton in idolatry, in that they did not, like Israel, adopt the idols of every foreign country, but were content with their own (Ezekiel 16:57; Jeremiah 2:11).