They shall be ashamed; not with an ingenuous and penitential shame for the sin, but with an involuntary and penal shame for the disappointment of their hopes which they had in their idols. Which ye have desired; which, after the manner of the heathen, you have consecrated to idolatrous uses, that under them you might worship your idols, as they did, Ezekiel 6:13 Hosea 4:13: see also Isaiah 57:5 Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 3:6. The gardens; in which, as well as in the groves, they committed idolatry; of which we read Isaiah 65:3, Isaiah 66:17. That ye have chosen, to wit, for the place of your worship, which is opposed to the place which God had chosen and appointed for his worship.

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