For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
For Jerusalem is ruined - reason given by the prophet why all shrink from the government.
Because their tongue and their doings (are) against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory - to provoke His "glorious" Majesty before His "eyes" (cf. Isaiah 49:5, which are "purer than to behold evil;" Habakkuk 1:13). The Syriac, and Lowth by a slight change of the Hebrew х `aanaan (H6051), for `eeneey (H5869], translate, 'the cloud of His glory,' the Shechinah.