Surely thou [a]hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are [b]full of the East manners, and are sorcerers as the Philistines, [c]and abound with strange children.

Their land also was full of [d]silver and gold, and there was none end of their treasures: and their land was full of horses, and their chariots were infinite.

Their land was also full of idols; they worshipped the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:6 The Prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complaineth to God, as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.
  2. Isaiah 2:6 Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the East parts.
  3. Isaiah 2:6 They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations.
  4. Isaiah 2:7 The Prophet first condemned their superstition and idolatry: next their covetousness, and thirdly their vain trust in worldly means.

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