Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 65:12

12 Therefore will I number you to the sword , and you shall all bow down to the slaughter , because when I called you did not answer, when I spake, you did not hear, but did evil before mine eyes, and did chuse that wherein I delighted not.

You have offended in number, worshipping a multitude, a troop of Idols, there shall be a great number of you perish by the Sword, or possibly the term number may refer to all in the next phrase, so let them know that none of them should escape, God saith he will number them, tell them out one by one to the Sword.

As you have bowed down to Idols Isa. 44. 17. (which are mine Enemies) I will make you bow down to your Enemies Swords.

I called you by my Prophets, Zech. 7. 7, 11, 12. you did not answer by doing the things which I by them spake to you for, but not considering that I saw you, or if considering it, yet not regarding it, you impudently did evil; yea,

You sinned deliberately, chusing sinful courses, the things which I hated, which are here (as often) expressed by a Meiosis, & called the things in which God delighteth not. In matters of Worship we ought to chuse nothing wherein God delighteth not, and reason, as well as Scripture will assure us, he can delight in nothing of that nature which himself hath not directed. It is observable that ruine is here threatned to this people, not for their immoralities, or lewd lives, but for their errors, and superstitions in Divine Worship. Other sins provoke God to wrath, but those of this nature alone, are enough to ruine Souls and Nations.

Marginal references: Prov. 1. 24. ch. 66. 4. Jer. 7. 13.