Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 5:6

6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes they have not walked in them.

Ierusalem the Metropolis, where the Temple and the solemn Feasts and Sacrifices were, which in likelihood was forwardest, fullest, and most expensive on other invented modes of Worship, she who was most obliged to me.

The Heb. includes a Rebellion and contumacy; and these were cause of her changing, as Rebels change the Laws of a Kingdom.

The Laws of Holy, Righteous, and Sober living; the exact rules of manners.

Improbity, and injustice toward each other, and impiety and irreligion against God himself.

There is more honesty, truth, and righteousness among the Nations then among the Jews.

The Precepts and Rules of Religious observances which I gave them, they have less valued, been less constant to, then the Nations have been to theirs, received from men and invented by man. So Ier. 2.9, 10, 11.

The Jews.

With scorn and abhorrence as what their mind abominated. So vile were they grown, that they loathed the excellent Law of God, and were weary of it, as Heb. implieth.

As for my Statutes in matters of Religion, they have refused to walk in them, and have modelled Religion to their own fancy, built Altars, adopted new Gods, and appointed new Worship more gay or easie as their humor was.