And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, realizing that He who brought this calamity upon them was Jehovah, the God of Israel, and that His Word is the eternal truth, also in the threats uttered against their idolatry, because I am broken with their whorish heart, or, "when I have broken their whorish heart," which hath departed from Me, in the spiritual adultery so often reproved in the Old Testament, and with their eyes, which go a-whoring after their idols, instead of being faithful to the God of the covenant; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations, they will have a feeling of revulsion against themselves for ever having yielded to the idolatry of the heathen nations. Thus the first part of a true repentance would be wrought in them, the feeling of disgust over their unfaithfulness to the true Lord.

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