My God will cast them away
With loathsomeness and contempt, having sinned against him, and
done such abominable things; cast them out of their own land, as
men not fit to live in it; cast them out of his sight, as not
able to endure them; cast them away, as unprofitable and good for
nothing; reject them from being his people; no more own them in
the relation they had stood in to him; nor show them any more
favour, at least until the conversion of them in the times of the
Messiah. These are the words of the prophet, who calls the Lord
his God, whom he worshipped, by whom he was sent, and in whose
name he prophesied; and this in opposition to, and distinction
from Israel, who worshipped other gods, and who had cast off the
true God, and were now, or would be, cast away by him, and so no
longer their God: because they did not hearken unto
him;
to his word, as the Targum; to him speaking by his prophets; to
the instructions, admonitions, threatenings, and predictions
delivered to them from him; they did not obey his law, regard his
will, or attend his worship; which was the cause of the rejection
of them, and a just one: and they shall be wanderers among
the nations;
being dispersed by the Assyrians in the several nations of the
world, where they were fugitives and vagabonds; as their
posterity are to this day.