Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 32:32

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom , and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter .

Or, But; for these words seem to contain an answer to that question, ver. 30. how should, &c. To this he answers, 1. Negatively it was not from impotency in God, for if he had not forsaken and delivered them up, they could not have been so easily chased. 2. Positively, But, saith he, the true reason was this, their vine, &c.

The people of Israel, which I planted and brought up as a choice vine, are now degenerated and become like the vine of Sodom, their principles and practises are all corrupt and abominable. Compare Isa. 1. 10.

Their fruits or actions are most loathsome to me, malicious and mischievous to others, and at last will be pernicious to themselves.

Marginal references: Or, is worse than the vine of Sodom, &c.