And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
I will visit upon her the days of Baalim - the days consecrated to the Baals, or various images of Baal in different cities; whence the names Baal-gad, Baal-hermon, etc. Also the deified attributes of God were represented by as many idols. Thus Baal-Berith was the Lord of covenants; Baal-Zebul, the Lord of flies; Baal-peor, the Lord over sinful lust.
Wherein she ... decked herself with her earrings - rather, nose-rings (Isaiah 3:21; margin, Ezekiel 16:12), with Wherein she ... decked herself with her earrings - rather, nose-rings (Isaiah 3:21; margin, Ezekiel 16:12), with which harlots decked themselves to attract admirers: answering to the ornaments in which the Israelites decked themselves on the idols' feasts.
She went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord - worse than the nations which had never known God. Israel willfully apostatized from Yahweh, whom she had known. In forgetting Me, she forgat her chief good. The sin of the world is not merely its open opposition to God, but its utter ignoring of Him. It is so taken up with other things, it has no time and no heart for God.