Consequences of Israel’s Apostasy (1)

I. Israel, Unreformed, Threatened with Punishment. "Whereupon can ye be stricken any more, increasing turning away?" (v. 5), i.e., going on, heaping apostasy to apostasy. If their purpose had been to make themselves abjectly miserable, they could not have more thoroughly succeeded. Upon what part of them can they stand another blow? They have been beaten black and blue over every inch of their bodies. I. Israel, Unreformed, Threatened with Punishment. "Whereupon can ye be stricken any more,...