Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 65:4

4 Which remain amongst the graves , and and lodge in the monuments , which eat swines flesh , and broth of abominable things in their vessels.

They remained amongst the Graves, either there expecting Revelations by dreams, or there consulting with Devils, who were thought to delight in such places, or to practice Necromancy, all which were forbidden, Deut. 18. 11. ch. 8. 19.

And they lodged in the Monuments, the Hebrew word here used gives advantage to Interpreters to vary in their senses. The word signifying onely places kept, or observed, some interpret it of Idol Temples, some of Caves and Denns, in which the Heathens used to worship their Idols, some of Tombs or Monuments for dead persons, besides the Idolatry of the thing, there was in it a sinful imitation of the Heathens, and a swerving from the Rule which God had given them.

They also are Swines flesh, contrary to the divine Law, L[illegible: 1+ letters]v, 11. 7. Deut. 14. 8. and they indured in their vessels,

Broth of abominable things, so the word is used, Iud. 6. 19, 20. others read it parts or pieces of abominable things, that is, broth, or pieces of such flesh as was to the Jews unclean by the Law, Levit. 11. Every Creature of God is good, but Gods Prohibition had made the flesh of divers Creatures an abominable thing to the Jews, they might not touch their flesh, Lev. 11 28. but they taking the measures of their duty from their Appetite, or from their Reason, concluding from natural Principles, made no Conscience of the positive Law of God. This was their iniquity which is further aggravated in the next verse.

Marginal references: pieces.