And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
To ... Israel, to a rebellious nation - rather, as the Hebrew х gowyim (H1471)], nations; the word usually applied to the pagan or Gentiles; here to the Jews, as being altogether paganized with idolatries. So in Isaiah 1:10 they are named "Sodom" and "Gomorrah." They were now become "Lo-ammi," not the people of God (Hosea 1:9).