Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 47:6

6. I was wroth with my people: I have polluted mine inheritance , and given them into thine hand : thou didst shew them no mercy , upon the ancient hast thou very heavily layd the yoke .

I cast them away as an unclean thing; I stained their glory; I removed them from the Holy Land, and from the place of my presence and worship, which alone made them an Holy and peculiar people; I banished them into a polluted Land, amongst uncircumcised and unclean persons, by whom they were many ways defiled; I rejected them from being my people, and so they were in my sight no better than the rest of the Heathen Nations.

To punish them, and deal with them as thou sawest fit.

Thou hast exceeded the bounds of thy Commission, and instead of that compassion, which humanity teacheth men to shew to such as are in misery, thou didst add to their afflictions.

Who besides their common calamity were afflicted with the miseries of old age, and therefore did require both pity and reverence.