Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 57:17

17 For the Iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me , and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart .

Of which sin the Jews were eminently guilty, as is expresly affirmed Ier. 6. 13. & 8. 10. But this is not mentioned exclusively as to other sins, but Synecdochically so as to comprehend all those sins for which God contended with them.

I withdrew my Favour and help from him, and left him in great calamities.

Yet he was not reformed by corrections, but in his distresses trespassed more and more, as was said of Ahaz, and obstinately persisted in those sinful courses which were chosen by and were most pleasing to the Lusts of his own corrupt Heart.

Marginal references: Heb. turning away.