John Trapp on Isaiah 44:20

Ver. 20. He feedeth on aſhes] i. e. he ſeeketh comfort of his Idol, but findeth as little as he doth nouriſhment who feedeth upon aſhes.

A ſeduced heart hath turned him aſide] And hence it is that he is brought to deify a thing ſo contemptible. From this expreſſion note that man is the cauſe of evil to himſelf; and is ſo blinded by his own default, that he cannot ſo much as once think ſeriouſly of his ſouls health: His deluded heart, that hath ſo oft deceived him, may well ſay to him, as the heart of Apollodorus the Tyrant ſeemed to ſay to him, who dreamed one night that he was fleaed by the Scythians, and boyled in a Caldron, and that his heart ſpake to him out of the kettle, [non-Latin text not transcribed], It is I that have drawn thee to all this.

Is there not a lye in my right hand?] i. e. An idol that is nothing in the world, and nothing it can do for me. How then are Images fit to be Lay men books? being unprofitable, lyes and teachers of lyes? Jer. 10.8. and 16.19. Hab. 2.18.