And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
They that escape of you shall remember me. The object of God's chastizements shall at last be effected by working in them true contrition. This partially took place in the complete eradication of idolatry from the Jews ever since the Babylonian captivity. But they have yet to repent of their crowning sin, the crucifixion of Messiah. Their full repentance is therefore future, and shall be after the ordeal of trials for many centuries, ending with that foretold in Zechariah 10:9; Zechariah 13:8-9; Zechariah 14:1-4; Zechariah 14:11. (Compare Ezekiel 7:16; Deuteronomy 30:1-8).
I am broken with their whorish heart. Fairbairn translates actively, 'I will break' their whorish heart: the English version is better for the expression can hardly be tolerated, 'I will break ... their eyes.' And the English version is the regular meaning of the Niphal conjugation х nishbartiy (H7665)]. In their exile they shall remember how long I bore with them, but was at last compelled to punish, after I was "broken" (my long-suffering wearied out) by their desperate spiritual whorishness (Calvin). (Numbers 15:39; Psalms 78:40; Isaiah 7:13; Isaiah 43:24; Isaiah 63:10).
They shall loathe themselves - (Leviticus 26:39-45). They shall not wait for men to condemn them, but shall condemn themselves (Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31; Job 42:6; 1 Corinthians 11:31, "If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged"). When the Jews loathe and abhor themselves, then God saith, "Neither will I abhor them" (Leviticus 26:44).
Their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols - literally, 'dung-gods,' as he contemptuously calls them х giluwleeyhem (H1544)]. So Beelzeboul, 'lord of dung,' means in Matthew 12:24, as read in some manuscripts: see margin So also in Ezekiel 6:4, "your idols" - literally, your dung-gods.'