And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself - formerly thou wast mine inheritance, and I was thine inheritance (Jeremiah 10:16; Exodus 19:5); but now, full of guilt, thou art no longer mine, but thine own inheritance to thyself: I am no longer thine inheritance "in the sight of the pagan" - i:e., even they shall see that, now that thou hast become a captive, thou art no longer owned as mine (Vatablus). Fairbairn etc., take the Hebrew х wªnichalt (H2490)] from a different root х chaalal (H2490), to pierce, to profane or pollute], 'thou shalt be polluted ('in,' Henderson) thyself,' etc.; the pagan shall regard thee as a polluted thing, who hast brought three own reproach on thyself. But the English version takes the root to be х naachal (H5157)] to inherit.