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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 5:6

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

Ver. 6. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness.] This was a foul change; this was to do evil as she could; Jer 3:5 this was ingratitude of the worst sort, such as Socrates called ειλικρινη αδικιαν, manifest injustice. Such a wretched change is complained of, Jer 2:11 Romans 1:23; Romans 1:25 Judges 1:4, but nowhere in so high an expression as this, as one observeth.

More than the nations.] Because the Jews had better laws but worse dispositions than they.

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