Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 8:18

18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

What I will do is greater then to be exprest.

They with a furious heat for their Idols provoked me, and I will with a just indignation provoke them, nay destroy them.

See chap. 7.4, 8, 9.

The Prophet doth not give it the name of praying, but 'tis a cry, a loud cry after the manner of other Idolaters, who think to be heard for the noise they make.

Yet doth not this at all prejudice the Truth or the Mercy of God to those that pray, nor may it discourage from the duty but it should awaken us that we pray with heart, and not only cry loud with voice.

Marginal references: chap. 5.11. and 7.4.; Prov. 1.28. Isa. 1.15. Jer. 11.11. Mic. 3.4.