Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 22:4

4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood , that thou hast shed, and hast defiled thy self in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy dayes to draw near, and art come even unto thy years, therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries .

Greatly or deeply guilty.

In abundance, cruelly and perfidiously.

As a polluted thing loathsome to be seen or toucht.

Dunghil gods.

Hastned the days of thy sorrows, and punishment, of thy desolation in Iudea, and of thy Captivity in Babylon, thou hast shortned thine own peace, and my patience.

Grown up now to the eldest years in sin, beyond which thou wert not to go, 'tis the same in effect with that went before.

For thy old sins thou art given up to be a reproach.

To be scorned by them, to be branded as a most perfidious, irreligious, unconscionable sort of people, not worthy to live. Or else to be a taunt, and by-word among all Nations; thus 'twas Psal. 44.13. and Ier. 24.9.

That were round about them, or farther off had heard of them.

Marginal references: 2 [illegible: 1 span]; Deut. [illegible: 3 letters] chap. 5.[illegible: 2 letters]